Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Current Competitive Grant

Blurring the lines between working and conservation lands: Bird use of prairie strips in row-cropped watersheds

Project ID: E2011-20

This 2-year grant for $36,986 was awarded in 2011.

Location: Jasper county

The research will quantify how grassland birds respond to the STRIPs (Science-based Trials of Rowcrops Integrated with Prairies) row crop conservation practice, and disseminate research results to knowledge users. This study seeks to expand knowledge about a new conservation practice, the development of strategically integrated prairie strips that improve the health and functioning of the row-crop dominated landscapes found throughout much of Iowa and adjacent states.

Lisa Schulte-Moore

Lisa Schulte-Moore Lisa Schulte-Moore is an associate professor in the ISU Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management. She has in-depth training in landscape ecology, particularly as applied to forest and avian ecology. Since moving to Iowa in 2003, she has jumped with both feet into the study of agroecology and is having a blast learning about these intricately coupled human and natural systems. The focus of her research is on human and natural systems; specifically, ecological and social facets of sustainable land management.

Co-Investigator(s):

Anna MacDonald, ISU Natural Resource Ecology and Management

This competitive grant project is part of the Leopold Center's Ecology Initiative.

Topics: Conservation practices, Watershed and ecoregion, Wildlife and recreation