will describe the unique steppe environment and demonstrate why steppe plants are perfectly-suited for rock gardens, like the one he cares for at the Denver Botanic Gardens. Mike looks forward to ...

Leiden archaeologist Robert Power discovered that Neanderthals must have consumed regularly plants as food even in this cold and dry environment. 'The Mammoth steppe is an environment that we don ...

Although plants tend to bounce back well after fires, the plants the wildlife of the steppe rely on, like sagebrush, “takes much longer” to grow back after a fire, according to Kehne.

The shrub-steppe is the only place in Washington you can find pygmy rabbits, burrowing owls, sage thrasher, greater sage-grouse and of course sagebrush along with other plant species like ...

Therefore, kurgans that still hold grasslands could preserve a piece of the formerly existing vast steppes and a high biodiversity of steppe plant species. However, during the past centuries both ...

But from 2000 until 2006 that trend was reversed. The net effect was a shortening of the growing season by about one month for steppe plants and three weeks for meadow vegetation. Plants that have ...

The tundra-steppe habitat, a unique mixture of tundra and steppe plants that existed all across Europe and Asia, vanished at the end of the ice age. Herbivores such as the woolly rhino ...

“This intricate plant is fighting to survive, and we have to use all the tools we can to keep it from going extinct.” Slickspot peppergrass is a flowering sagebrush-steppe plant threatened by ...

“This plant is struggling to survive, and we’re hopeful the critical habitat designation will help put it on the path to recovery.” Slickspot peppergrass is a flowering sagebrush-steppe plant ...

But from 2000 until 2006 that trend was reversed. The net effect was a shortening of the growing season by about one month for steppe plants and three weeks for meadow vegetation. Plants that have ...