scholarly journals Golden Eagle Perch-Site Use in the U.S. Southern Plains: Understanding Electrocution Risk

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
James F. Dwyer ◽  
Robert K. Murphy ◽  
Dale W. Stahlecker ◽  
Angela M. Dwyer ◽  
Clint W. Boal
Keyword(s):  
Golden Eagle ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
Site Use ◽  
The U.S

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Hannah Holleman
Keyword(s):  
Global Market ◽  
Dust Storms ◽  
Dust Bowl ◽  
Static Electricity ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
The World ◽  
Dry Conditions ◽  
Crop Agriculture ◽  
The U.S

This introductory chapter provides a background of the 1930s Dust Bowl on the U.S. southern plains, where the ancient grasslands that protected the soil from prairie winds and rains and nourished regional species were destroyed within just a few decades, following the violent opening of the plains to white settlement and the global market in the 1800s. Under pressure from the vagaries of the world economy, settlers sheared the land to expand cash-crop agriculture and ranching. As major drought descended on the plains, winds and static electricity lifted the desiccated, exposed topsoil, forming dust storms on an unprecedented scale. Such massive loss of soil and continued dry conditions meant the land could no longer support life as it once had. By the end of the 1930s, tens of thousands of people were displaced. Hence, when scientists today predict the increasing possibility of Dust Bowl-like conditions, they are signaling a particular kind of extreme ecological and social change.

Insecticide and Fungicide Wheat Seed Treatment Improves Wheat Grain Yields in the U.S. Southern Plains

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. CM-2013-0039-RS ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric A. DeVuyst ◽  
Jeff Edwards ◽  
Bob Hunger ◽  
Lance Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Seed Treatment ◽  
Wheat Seed ◽  
Wheat Grain ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
Grain Yields ◽  
The U.S

Water Deficit, Heat Tolerance, and Persistence of Summer-Dormant Grasses in the U.S. Southern Plains

Crop Science ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 2363-2370 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Malinowski ◽  
J. Kigel ◽  
W. E. Pinchak
Keyword(s):  
Water Deficit ◽  
Heat Tolerance ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals A Hydroponic Seedling Assay for Resistance to Cephalosporium Stripe of Wheat

Plant Disease ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 82 (10) ◽  
pp. 1126-1131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Cowger ◽  
Christopher C. Mundt
Keyword(s):  
Winter Wheat ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Field Performance ◽  
Post Inoculation ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
Wheat Seedlings ◽  
Winter Wheat Cultivars ◽  
Cephalosporium Gramineum ◽  
Moderately Resistant ◽  
The U.S

A procedure was developed to rate winter wheat seedlings approximately 20 days old for resistance to Cephalosporium stripe, a vascular wilt caused by the soilborne fungus Cephalosporium gramineum. Seedlings were inoculated after 12 to 15 days of growth in liquid culture in controlled-environment chambers, then assessed for disease symptoms at 7 to 8 days post-inoculation. Disease severity was assayed by measuring chlorophyll in the youngest fully expanded leaf, using a chlorophyll meter. Four replicated trials tested a total of 12 winter wheat cultivars, including both hard red cultivars from the U.S. Southern Plains and soft white winter cultivars from the U.S. Pacific Northwest. With one exception, the procedure consistently ranked cultivars correctly, according to field performance, as moderately resistant or susceptible. Jagger, a moderately resistant, hard red Kansas wheat, was ranked with susceptible cultivars in one of three trials.

scholarly journals Resilient Southern Plains Agriculture and Forestry in a Changing Climate

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Climate Extremes ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
Climatic Extremes ◽  
Southern Great Plains ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
The U.S

Agricultural production in the U.S. Southern Great Plains is extensive and diverse. The region is home to numerous cropping, livestock, and forestry systems, which serve as vital economic components for the Southern Plains states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. These systems, while mature and resilient in many respects, are nonetheless at risk from the ongoing impacts of climate extremes as well as the projected impacts of future climate change. As scientists and extension professionals continue to refine their understanding of how climatic extremes and changes will affect agriculture in this region in the future, there is a concurrent need to understand the critical elements and commonalities among production systems regarding those risks, as well as the information requirements and regional capacity needed to harden production systems, improve resiliency, and enhance profitability.

Green Manure and Forage Potential of Lablab in the U.S. Southern Plains

2015 ◽  
Vol 107 (3) ◽  
pp. 1113-1118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian K. Northup ◽  
Srinivas C. Rao
Keyword(s):  
Green Manure ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
The U.S

Dust Bowls of Empire

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Holleman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Soil Degradation ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Dust Bowl ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
Ecological Degradation ◽  
Innovative Research ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
The U.S

The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the U.S. southern plains. Known as the Dust Bowl, this crisis has become a major referent of the climate change era, and has long served as a warning of the dire consequences of unchecked environmental despoliation. Through innovative research and a fresh theoretical lens, this book reexamines the global socioecological and economic forces of settler colonialism and imperialism precipitating this disaster, explaining critical antecedents to the acceleration of ecological degradation in our time. The book draws lessons from this period that point a way forward for environmental politics as we confront the growing global crises of climate change, freshwater scarcity, extreme energy, and soil degradation.

Water‐Yield Relationships for Irrigated and Dryland Wheat in the U.S. Southern Plains

1994 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
pp. 980-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack T. Musick ◽  
Ordie R. Jones ◽  
Bobby A. Stewart ◽  
Donald A. Dusek
Keyword(s):  
Water Yield ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
The U.S
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