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The ELM grassland model (Innis 1978) was used to simulate the impact of different management practices upon a tallgrass prairie. The ELM grassland model is a total ecosystem model of a grassland that was developed by the US/IBP Grassland Biome program. It incorporates subsystem models similar in level of resolution and mechanism to those described for primary producers in Chapter 2 and for vertebrate and invertebrate consumers in Chapters 5 and 6. It was designed to be a generalized model that could be applied to the different US/IBP grassland sites. The experimental sites range from a desert grassland in New Mexico to a tallgrass prairie in Oklahoma. The Osage site is the tallgrass prairie site located in northeastern Oklahoma.
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Parton, W.J., Risser, P.G. (1979). Simulated Impact of Management Practices upon the Tallgrass Prairie. In: French, N.R. (eds) Perspectives in Grassland Ecology. Ecological Studies, vol 32. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6182-7_9
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