Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: A Long-Term PerspectiveEcology of the Shortgrass Steppe: A Long Term Perspective summarizes and synthesizes more than sixty years of research that has been conducted throughout the shortgrass region in North America. The shortgrass steppe was an important focus of the International Biological Program's Grassland Biome project, which ran from the late 1960s until the mid 1970s. The work conducted by the Grassland Biome project was preceded by almost forty years of research