Mixed grass prairie

A mixed-grass prairie is an ecotone located between the tallgrass prairies and shortgrass prairies. The mixed-grass prairie is richer in ecological diversity than either the tall- or shortgrass prairie. The mixed-grass prairie occurs in the central plains portion of the Great Plains, varying in width from central Texas in the United States up into southeastern Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan in the northern mixed grasslands of Canada.[1]

Mixed grass prairie around the Afterbay near Fort Smith, Montana
Mixed grass prairie in relation to the Great Plains
  Shortgrass prairie
  Mixed grass prairie
  Tallgrass prairie

See also
American Prairie ReserveNine Mile Prairie
Buffalo CommonsOglala National Grassland
Buffalo Gap National GrasslandTexas blackland prairies
Central Plains Biosphere ReserveTheodore Roosevelt National Park
Coteau du MissouriValentine National Wildlife Refuge
Drift PrairieWichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Nebraska Sand HillsWind Cave National Park

References
  1. G. E. Wickens: Ecophysiology of economic plants in arid and semi-arid lands p.76
  • "Badlands Mixed-grass Prairies". U.S. National Park Service ~ Prairie Ecology of the Badlands. U.S. Department of the Interior.
  • "Central and Southern Mixed Grasslands". Terrestrial Ecoregions - Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands. World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
  • "Mixed-grass Prairie - Missouri Coteau". North Dakota Game and Fish Department. State of North Dakota.
  • "Sagebrush Steppe And Mixed Grass Prairie". U.S. National Park Service - Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. U.S. Department of the Interior.
  • "Wyoming Native Plants Program". U.S. Bureau of Land Management ~ Wyoming. U.S. Department of the Interior.
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