Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)/KNZ008: Census of Greater Prairie-Chicken Leks from the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area (KPRNA)

LTER - Long-Term Ecological Research Program/Konza Prairie (KNZ) LTER/KNZ008 [Summary adapted from the LTER Core Data Set Catalog]: This dataset consists of the location of leks and number of birds per lek are censused during late April and early May across Konza Prairie to document year to year densities of greater prairie chickens. The Konza Prairie Research Natural Area (KPRNA) is a representative of native tallgrasss prairie in the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas.

The Konza Prairie was established as a research facility in 1972 and now contains 3,487 ha. The land was acquired by the Nature Conservancy and is leased to the Division of Biology at Kansas State University for research purposes. Information about the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program can be obtained from: LTER Network Office College of Forest Resources AR-10 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 Phone: 206-543-4853 FAX: 206-685-0790 Email: office@lternet.edu "lternet.edu" or National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology Long-Term Projects in Environmental Biology Phone: 202-357-9596 Email: jcallaha@nsf.gov