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Due to the highly variable climatic regimes across the Great Plains, many aspects of climate change are not expected to affect all areas of the eco-region equally. In regards to precipitation, this means an exacerbation of extremes where dry areas in the south are expected to get drier and wetter areas in the north to get wetter.
In addition, the top predators used to be the Great Plains wolf and the grizzly bear, but the coyote has replaced those animals. Prairie dogs were once the most abundant animals in the shortgrass prairie and historically lived in colonies across a range that historically spanned 11 states but now live in 1 percent of their former range.
The Great Plains is a broad expanse of ... saber-toothed cats and other ancient animals, ... et al. "Land change variability and human–environment dynamics in the ...
Former Kansas State climatologist Mary Knapp has long warned that while agricultural advances have kept a 1930s disaster from recurring, climate change could yet plunge the Great Plains back into ...
The plains bison and the wood bison numbered in the millions during the Pleistocene and most of the Holocene, until European settlers drove them to near-extinction in the late 19th century. The plains bison has made a recovery in many regions of its former range, and is involved in several local rewilding projects across the Midwestern United ...
When overkill and climate change are combined they balance each other out. Climate change reduces the number of plants, overkill removes animals, therefore fewer plants are eaten. Second-order predation combined with climate change exacerbates the effect of climate change. [166] (results graph at right). The second-order predation hypothesis is ...
Grazing animals, herd ... native species under warmer and drier conditions that occur in many grasslands due to climate change. ... A Great Plains History. University ...
Off the main road in Plains, tucked away from the frenzied media and cameras, a field of solar arrays surrounded by pollinating plants is silently carrying on Carter’s legacy of renewable energy ...