Comparison of Vegetation of Kansas-Nebraska Drift-Loess Hills and Loess Plains

Authors

J. E. Weaver, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

1-1960

Comments

Published in Ecology, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Jan., 1960), pp. 73-88. Copyright 1960 Ecological Society of America. Used by permission.

Abstract

The western edge of True Prairie gives way very gradually on the Loess Plains south of the Platte River to Mixed Prairie of the Great Plains. North of the Platte a similar transition occurs in the valleys and on the slopes of the Loess Hills. But in northern Kansas the True Prairie of the Kansas-Nebraska Drift-Loess Hills is definitely separated by the Flint Hills Region from its western edge on the Kansas-Nebraska Loess Plains. In this study the vegetation, soils, and other environmental factors of the two areas are described and compared.