Archbold's Buck Island Ranch recently featured Gainesville's 'Main St Daily News'

Seventeen years of data from Archbold’s Buck Island Ranch fueled UF/IFAS study on the relationship between agricultural land intensification and ecosystem functions of grasslands and wetlands.

“The result is an analysis aimed at understanding the consequences of management practices applied to grasslands while leaving wetlands untouched,” said Jiangxiao Qiu, an associate professor of landscape ecology at the UF/IFAS Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center (FLREC) and the study’s senior corresponding author.

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Photo caption: Jiangxiao Qiu and Yuxi Guo taking samples on grassland at Archbold's Buck Island Ranch. Courtesy Yuxi Guo ~