| The eastern plains are dominated by shortgrass and midgrass prairies, Conservation Reserve Program plantings, and agricultural development. |
| Reeder JD, Schuman GE, Morgan JA, Lecain DR Response of organic and inorganic carbon and nitrogen to long-term grazing of the shortgrass steppe. |
| The original centers of abundance of upland sandpipers were the shortgrass and mixed-grass prairies of the Great Plains. |
| The shortgrass prairie population of Canada geese, made up of two small races, nests in whitefront country, too. |
| The shortgrass prairie steppe is the westernmost part of the Great Plains region. |
| As a tall human, it's easy to forget that small animals experience even shortgrass prairies very differently than we do. |
