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Effects Of Management Practices On Grassland Plant And Bird Community Composition In Kane County Forest Preserves, Colleen R. Zumpf
Effects Of Management Practices On Grassland Plant And Bird Community Composition In Kane County Forest Preserves, Colleen R. Zumpf
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Loss of grassland ecosystems over the past century has increased importance of efforts to improve and restore habitat for native plant species and the biotic communities they support. As a result of these efforts, biotic and abiotic conditions and interactions with the environment are altered. Species evolution based on these particular environmental conditions has caused many species to be mapped onto various environmental gradients which can be defined as niche separation. This study attempted to determine what environmental gradients had the strongest impact upon grassland bird and plant species niche separation, particularly those gradients defined by management activities such as …