Southwestern Loess Terrace Prairie
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Current ecosystem state
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Management practices/drivers
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Transition 1A
Plow and convert site to cultivation
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Description
This state is a mixed grassland community that is the native grassland historic community. This community state can be highly productive and provides beneficial habitat for wildlife species.
Submodel
Description
This state is a mixed grassland community that resembles the native grassland historic community. This is an attempt to reconstruct the species composition to the site. This community state can be highly productive and provides beneficial habitat for wildlife species.
Submodel
Description
This state is a mixed grassland community that results from the native grassland historic community being altered by cultivation, destructive grazing or other site alterations. The species composition may include a variety of species native or introduced, grasses, grass likes, forbs, legumes, and some woody species.
Submodel
Description
This state is a grassland community that results from the native grassland historic community being altered by cultivation, destructive grazing or other site alterations. This is an intensively managed state of this site. It will be characterized by monoculture hayland or Pasture. This is a common state occurring on this site.
Submodel
Description
This state is cropland that results from the native grassland historic community being altered by cultivation or other site alterations. This is an intensively managed state of this site. It will be characterized by monoculture cropland.
Submodel
Description
This community results from the native grassland historic community being altered and is characterized by the Woodland Converted State. The species occurring in this state are woody and have become mature. This state may be achieved by planting and managing woody species or by invasion without management. This is a common Community for this site.
Submodel
Mechanism
Plow and convert site to cultivation:
When the native tall grass community is removed by plowing or overgrazing and non-native species are planted are allowed to colonize the site. This transition has occurred on the majority of the landscape for managed agricultural production.
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