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An Iowa State University research team in collaboration with Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and other partners has discovered that strategically adding a little bit of prairie back onto the agricultural landscape can result in many benefits – for water and soil quality, habitat for wildlife and pollinators, as well as opportunities for biomass production. With assistance from ETPBR member USDA Farm Service Agency, research has shown how small amounts of native prairie vegetation integrated within corn and soybean row crops produce environmental benefits at levels disproportionately greater than their extent and in a cost effective manner. The project has now transitioned to demonstration and evaluation of the...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2013,
2014,
Academics & scientific researchers,
Applications and Tools,
Conservation Design, All tags...
Conservation NGOs,
Data Acquisition and Development,
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE,
Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
Federal resource managers,
Gulf Restoration,
IA-01,
IA-02,
IA-03,
IA-04,
Informing Conservation Delivery,
Iowa,
LCC,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Methodology/Protocol,
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge,
Policy makers & regulators,
Private land owners,
Project,
Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services,
State agencies,
Training/Outreach/Workshop,
agriculture,
completed,
ecosystem services,
environment,
environment,
pollination,
water quality, Fewer tags
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In Texas, the USFWS is currently reviewing 11 mussel species for ESA protection and several of these species (e.g., Cyclonaias petrina, Texas Pimpleback, and Lampsilis bracteata, Texas Fatmucket) have been the primary focus of controlled propagation by several federal hatcheries. To date, information on genetic diversity within and across known populations for these species is incomplete and so the justification for their controlled propagation is unclear, and a genetic management plan to guide propagation activities does not exist. These unknowns raise serious questions about whether any of the 11 proposed species are truly in need of and would benefit from controlled propagation. The overall goal of this project...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Tags: ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES,
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION,
BIOSPHERE,
BIVALVES,
EARTH SCIENCE, All tags...
ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS,
MOLLUSKS,
MUSSELS,
POPULATION DYNAMICS,
Project,
SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS,
accepted,
biota, Fewer tags
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