The Biodiversity Scenario (IMAGE)
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In their 2002 study, Joan Iverson Nassauer and her colleagues developed alternatives to “business-as-usual” agriculture in the Corn Belt. This image simulates the landscape resulting from an alternative future scenario where strips of native prairie were integrated with rows of corn or bean crops. In their 2025 paper, Nassauer and colleagues cite subsequent research that has shown that such prairie strips boost biodiversity and ecosystem services.
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