Blurring the lines between working and conservation lands: Bird use of prairie strips on farmers' fields
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2016-01-01
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Shulte, Lisa
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Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
The Leopold Center is a research and education center on the campus of Iowa State University created to identify and reduce negative environmental and social impacts of farming and develop new ways to farm profitably while conserving natural resources.
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As part of a larger prairie strips project, this project began monitoring how farmland birds are affected by the addition of these strips to cropland. The hypothesis is that bird species presence and abundance can be positively impacted by the potential habitat provided by prairie strips.