Media Category: KNZ

Stormy skies at the Konza Prairie LTER.

Limestone on a spring prairie Site:Konza Prairie Biological Station Photographer: Jill Haukos

Sally Koerner, Meghan Avolio, and Kim Komatsu (L to R) study a vegetation plot at the Konza Prairie LTER site.

Schematic of the tipping point phenomena at the Konza Prairie. The low points represent the two stable states—in this case, grassland or shrubland.

Woody encroachment onto the prairie grassland.

Stream flowing through Konza Prairie.

Rolling grassland hills in the Konza LTER site.

Meadowlark nests are dome-shaped and built on the ground. The spatial orientation of the opening of the nest changed during the drought to cool the nest.

Meadowlark

Grasshopper Sparrow

Dickcissel

“Bambi” the decommissioned military tanker truck and Konza Prairie’s hardest worker (artistic liberties taken).