Grassland Birds and Habitat Structure in Sandhills Prairie Managed Using Cattle or Bison Plus Fire

摘要: Grassland birds are known to respond specific changes in habitat structure, such as plant height and density. However, the response of grassland bird communities management induced regional mosaic less well understood. Grazing by ungulates fire regimes play an important role defining Great Plains. We provide information on abundance, distribution, structure from similar sandhill prairie landscapes managed traditionally with grazing cattle (Bos taurus) a dynamic bison bison)-plus-fire regime. Although two dissimilar, only few differences were recorded at landscape scale. Our result may reflect either inherent variability sandhills compared scale which perceive habitat, or short time frame over bison-plus-fire regime has been place. The patches produced intensive do appear have different local