Great Plains Studies, Center for
Title
Review of Playas of the Great Plains by Loren M. Smith
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
Fall 2005
Abstract
Loren M. Smith and his students at Texas Tech have been studying the ecology
of playas for two decades. Playas of the Great Plains is the fruit of that work.
Playas (or playa lakes) are shallow, circular basins that hold water following
rainstorms but usually dry up later in the growing season. These unique,
ephemeral wetlands occur in arid and semi -arid environments around the world,
but nowhere more abundantly than on the tablelands of the Southern Great Plains
of North America.
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Published in Great Plains Research 15:2 (Fall 2005). Copyright © 2005 The Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Used by permission.