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The Springfield Plateau is the only Ozark Highland Level IV ecoregion within all four states. [1] The nearly level to rolling Springfield Plateau is underlain by cherty limestone of the Mississippian Boone Formation and Burlington Limestone; it is less rugged and wooded than Ecoregions 38, 39b, and 39c, and lacks the Ordovician dolomite and limestone of Ecoregions 39c and 39d.
The adjoining forests in Canada are generally referred to as the Mixedwood Plains Ecozone or the Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Forest Region. 32 Texas Blackland Prairies; 33 East Central Texas Plains; 34 Western Gulf Coastal Plain; 36 Ouachita Mountains; 37 Arkansas Valley; 38 Boston Mountains; 39 Ozark Highlands; 51 North Central Hardwood Forests ...
Great Plains: 9.2: Temperate Prairies 9.2.1: Aspen Parkland/Northern Glaciated Plains: 9.2.2: Lake Manitoba and Lake Agassiz Plain 9.2.3: Western Corn Belt Plains: 9.2.4: Central Irregular Plains 9.3: West-Central Semi-Arid Prairies 9.3.1: Northwestern Glaciated Plains 9.3.3: Northwestern Great Plains 9.3.4: Nebraska Sand Hills 9.4: South ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced last week that it will receive the Southern Plains bumblebee for Endangered Species Act listing.
The Central Great Plains are a prairie ecoregion of the central United States, part of North American Great Plains. The region runs from west-central Texas through west-central Oklahoma, central Kansas, and south-central Nebraska. It is designated as the Central and Southern Mixed Grasslands ecoregion by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
More specifically, the Cross Timbers fall into Level II Ecoregion 9.4, the smaller South Central Semi-Arid Plains. [7] In southern Oklahoma, the Cross Timbers are located on the very edge of the Great Plains, as they border directly parts of Level I Ecoregion 8.0, the Eastern Temperate Forests; elsewhere, the Cross Timbers are separated ...
This social parasite is native to 15 states across the U.S. and obliges other bee species to raise its offspring. However, Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bees A New Law Protects Two Beloved Species ...
The more irregular topography and erosive, silty soils contribute to a mixed land use with less cropland and more pasture and woodland than neighboring regions. The flora of this region is mixed, with shortgrass and mixed-grass prairie and rare xeric species on south and west-facing slopes, and bur-oak woodland and tallgrass prairie on cooler ...