Review of Managing Changing Prairie Landscapes Edited by Todd A. Radenbaugh and Glenn C. Sutter

Authors

• Fred Samson, U.S. Forest Service

Date of this Version

Spring 2006

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Research 16:1 (Spring 2006). Copyright © 2006 The Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Used by permission.

Abstract

Four primary phases to an ecosystem cycle involve the release of carbon, energy, and nutrients by insects, fire, grazing or other agents; reorganization of the primary resources by pioneer species; exploitation of resources (succession) and redevelopment of more complex ecological relationships; and storage (climax) of resources until an ecological driver initiates a new phase.