Fig 4. Total area of dominant cover types.
Total area of each cover type (prairie, cropland, and Conservation Reserve Program [CRP] grassland) in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion of southwestern Kansas, southeastern Colorado, and northwestern Oklahoma, USA, in 5-year intervals from 1985–2015. The Conservation Reserve Program was initiated in 1986, and therefore excluded as an established cover type before 1990.