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{{Short description|Ecotone located between tall and shortgrass prairie}}File:Mixed_grass_prairie_Fort_Smith_Montana.jpg|thumb|Mixed grass prairie around the Afterbay near Fort Smith, MontanaFort Smith, MontanaFile:United States Prairies.svg|right|thumb|300px|Mixed grass prairie in relation to the Great Plains{{legend|#00FF00|Shortgrass prairie}}{{legend|#00C000|Mixed grass prairie}}{{legend|#008000|Tallgrass prairieTallgrass prairieA mixed-grass prairie is an ecotone located between the tallgrass prairies and shortgrass prairies. The mixed-grass prairie is richer in botanical diversity than either the tall- or shortgrass prairie. The mixed-grass prairie occurs in the central plains portion of the Great Plains, varying in width from central Texas in the United States up into southeastern Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan in the northern mixed grasslands of Canada.G. E. Wickens: Ecophysiology of economic plants in arid and semi-arid lands p.76">

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American Prairie >| Nine Mile Prairie

Buffalo Commons >| Oglala National Grassland

Buffalo Gap National Grassland >| Texas blackland prairies

Central Plains Biosphere Reserve >| Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Missouri Coteau >| Valentine National Wildlife Refuge

Drift Prairie >| Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Sandhills (Nebraska)>Nebraska Sand Hills	Wind Cave National Park

References

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External links

• WEB,weblink Badlands Mixed-grass Prairies, U.S. National Park Service ~ Prairie Ecology of the Badlands, U.S. Department of the Interior,
• WEB,weblink Central and Southern Mixed Grasslands, Terrestrial Ecoregions - Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands, World Wildlife Fund (WWF),
• WEB,weblink Mixed-grass Prairie - Missouri Coteau, North Dakota Game and Fish Department, State of North Dakota,
• WEB,weblink Sagebrush Steppe And Mixed Grass Prairie, U.S. National Park Service - Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, U.S. Department of the Interior,
• WEB,weblink Wyoming Native Plants Program, U.S. Bureau of Land Management ~ Wyoming, U.S. Department of the Interior,