John T. Delaney

TL;DR: It is shown that land-use legacies can exert more influence on grassland insect community composition than current management, but the particular aspects of these land- use legacies that are important vary across insect taxa.

TL;DR: It is found remnant prairies had greater richness of inflorescences when summed over the growing season and that remnants were least similar to the other grassland types in terms of composition, and that Conservation grazed cattle pastures had more periods where turnover in composition from one survey to the next was low, indicated by the coefficient of variation in turnover throughout the season.

TL;DR: Grassland site characteristics such as floral resource abundance and stocking rate are of potential importance to bee pollinators and suggest avenues for further research to untangle the complex interactions between grassland management, plant responses, and bee health.

TL;DR: Restorations in grasslands in the United States and elsewhere are likely to create mixed ploidy populations, probably resulting in lower reproductive success for the remnant population, and prevention of mixed ploids will require the screening of restoration seed sources and regional surveys for ploids variation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the response of butterfly and plant community composition to the use of fire and moderate grazing by domestic cattle on degraded grasslands dominated by exotic plants was evaluated by comparing experimental pastures to two reference sites that were grassland dominated by native plants.