How grasses evolved to regulate fire and grazing

For thousands of years, the grasses in prairies and other grass-dominated habitats interacted with fire and large grazers in a mutualistic relationship that enabled the Poaceae to dominate large areas of the world that would otherwise be overrun with forests.

Read about this tight relationship in an article that I wrote for the Missouri Prairie Journal’s Fall/Winter 2026 edition (vol 47:3/4, starting on page 15).

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