{"id":4102,"date":"2026-11-12T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2026-11-12T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:21:09","slug":"how-grasses-evolved-to-regulate-fire-and-grazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/2026\/11\/12\/how-grasses-evolved-to-regulate-fire-and-grazing\/","title":{"rendered":"How grasses evolved to regulate fire and grazing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"762\" src=\"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/mpj47.jpg\" alt=\"Missouri Prairie Journal's Fall\/Winter 2026 edition.\" class=\"wp-image-4106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/mpj47.jpg 600w, https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/mpj47-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read about this tight relationship in an article that I wrote for the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/13dVA_1JB62Jpstf3hX5R3fRx2HxkVwem\/view\">Missouri Prairie Journal&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/13dVA_1JB62Jpstf3hX5R3fRx2HxkVwem\/view\"> Fall\/Winter 2026 edition (vol 47:3\/4, starting on page 15)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/13dVA_1JB62Jpstf3hX5R3fRx2HxkVwem\/view\">Click here to read (pdf)<\/a>*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*If digital is not your thing, you can get a hardcopy of the journal by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/moprairie.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member of the foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[101,13,133],"tags":[120,37,30,91],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evolution","category-grasslands","category-old-growth-grasslands","tag-anatherum","tag-andropogon","tag-panicum","tag-tripsacum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4120,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions\/4120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}