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![mixed prairie in the U.S. Midwest.](/news/mmg/media/images/Bigbluestem_f.jpg)
Early morning in a big bluestem-dominated mixed prairie in the U.S. Midwest.
Credit: Carolyn Malmstrom, MSU
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![Switchgrass harvest on the field at NSF's Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) LTER site in Michigan.](/news/mmg/media/images/switchgrass.harvest.biofuels.KBS.LTER.0002_f.jpg)
Switchgrass harvest for research at NSF's Kellogg Biological Station LTER site in Michigan.
Credit: Julie Doll, MSU
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![Three students collecting plant biomass samples in the field](/news/mmg/media/images/plant.sampling.KBS.LTER.0006_f.jpg)
Collecting plant biomass samples at the NSF KBS LTER mixed prairie research site.
Credit: Kurt Stepnitz, MSU
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![Ecologists empty bee bowls used to sample for pollinators in the field](/news/mmg/media/images/Pollinator sampling.biofuels_f.jpg)
Ecologists empty bee bowls used to sample for pollinators.
Credit: Claudio Gratton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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![Field researcher checks insect sticky traps for insects](/news/mmg/media/images/insect.sampling.KBS.LTER.0004_f.jpg)
Field researcher checks insect "sticky traps."
Credit: Kurt Stepnitz, MSU
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![Scientist collecting insect samples at the KBS LTER site.](/news/mmg/media/images/insect.sampling.KBS.LTER.0005_f.jpg)
Scientists collect insect samples at the KBS LTER site.
Credit: Kurt Stepnitz, MSU
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