Recent land use change in the Western Corn Belt threatens grasslands and wetlands

By C. Wright, Michael C. Wimberly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Soil Science

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

1. Yi Yang
2. Christopher J. Kucharik
3. John M. Pleasants
4. L. Hansen
5. G. Kahsay

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4. Yi Yang
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1. W. Bond
2. Yi Yang
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Citations in the corpus

• Renewable energy and biodiversity: Implications for transitioning to a Green Economy (2017, background): “It should be noted that the future expansion of 2nd generation feedstocks in the US will take place outside the Midwest Cornbelt, meaning that more species and habitats might be affected, possibly having negative effects on biodiversity [235,236].”
• Private Landowner Conservation Behavior Following Participation in Voluntary Incentive Programs: Recommendations to Facilitate Behavioral Persistence (2018, background): “Opportunity costs are certainly relevant for land retirement programs such as CRP, where there is evidence farmers reverted CRP parcels to conventional production when commodity prices for corn peaked around 2012 (Wright & Wimberly 2013).”
• Drought effects on US maize and soybean production: spatiotemporal patterns and historical changes (2016, background): “…part of the study domain corresponds with areas in which agricultural land use has expanded recently into areas previously considered marginal (e.g. eastern South Dakota), which already has a significant environmental footprint (Wright and Wimberly 2013, Lark et al 2015, Reitsma et al 2015).”
• Wheat improves nitrogen use efficiency of maize and soybean-based cropping systems (2015, neutral): “1) (Liebman et al., 2013; Nickerson et al., 2007; Wright and Wimberly, 2013).”
• Two sides of the same coin: consequential life cycle assessment based on the attributional framework (2016, background): “Indeed, over the past few years we have observed significant corn expansion into grassland and cropland like cotton (Johnston, 2013; Wallander et al., 2011; Wright and Wimberly, 2013; Yang and Suh, 2015b).”
• Milkweed restoration in the Midwest for monarch butterfly recovery: estimates of milkweeds lost, milkweeds remaining and milkweeds that must be added to increase the monarch population (2017, background): “The CRP areas converted into cropland are mostly marginal land (Wright & Wimberly, 2013; Lark et al., 2015) and probably have a lower milkweed density than the CRP land shown in Table 1 which came from Iowa farmland.”
• Where Tree Planting and Forest Expansion are Bad for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (2015, background): “Given the limitations of remote sensing to distinguish natural and anthropogenic grasslands (e.g., Wright and Wimberly 2013, WRI 2014), the use of satellite imagery alone is unlikely to permit the accurate global mapping of biologically rich grassy biomes.”