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REX PIEPER
REX PIEPER
Grasslands of central North America 223
Plate 6.1a
Examples of the three major grassland types , from North Dakota in the north to
New Mexico in the south – (a) Short-grass prairie (central New Mexico).
Plate 6.1b
Examples of the three major grassland types , from North Dakota in the north
to New Mexico in the south – (b) Northern mixed -grass prairie (central North
Dakota).
three major grassland types from North Dakota to New Mexico. The map in
Lauenroth et al. (1994) (Figure 6.2) shows that the tall-grass prairie formed a
narrow band from Canada south to the Gulf Coast Prairie in Texas. The diagram
in Barbour, Burk and Pitts (1987) shows a transect (Figure 6.3) from the Pacific
Ocean to the Atlantic at latitude 37°N (the northern boundary of Arizona and