In January 2012 the GPLCC Science Committee selected five research projects for priority funding. The list includes the priority resource areas of Lesser Prairie-Chicken and Aquatics habitats, allowing the GPLCC to consider the landscape as a whole.
During the June meeting, the Great Plains LCC Steering Committee recommended six science projects be funded at a total of $854,480. These projects focus on the priority research needs for a number of species and habitats in the Southern Great Plains. (See the table below for a list of funded projects.) For the FY2011 RFP, a subset of five species was selected as umbrella species based on their relevance as an indicator to a habitat type and/or guild of species found in the Great Plains LCC. The presence/absence and abundance of these indicator or umbrella species denotes a specific environmental condition and relates to the structure and function of various habitats within the Great Plains LCC, many of which are...
In 2010, the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GPLCC) committed $744,500 to fund 10 science research projects that address the predicted impacts of climate change on priority species and habitats in the Southern Great Plains. The funded projects were quite diverse and focused on a variety of species — from Arkansas darter to Lesser Prairie-Chicken.
