Abstract

The Nature Conservancy ecologist Chris Helzer asked how big a prairie needs to be in order to maintain ecological functions or, on the flip side, how much habitat fragmentation—breaking up of landscapes into smaller, unconnected, and dissimilar patches—undermines a prairie.

Keywords:

• prairie,
• landscapes,
• tallgrass,
• ecosystem,
• fires,
• lightning,
• chicken,
• habitat,
• wildlife,
• European honeybee,
• BOX CAR,
• Phil Epp