Planting native plants can facilitate this CO2 removal. The soils beneath the tallgrass prairie can contain an immense amount of soil organic matter and nitrogen. Studies have indicated that temperate prairie grasslands are superior soil carbon sinks when compared to forests of similar climatic. It is the combination of fire, plants, root depth distributions and microbes that produce the large amount of soil carbon. With this decrease of habitats, many plants and animals have lost the special conditions and requirements they need for their survival.
Conservation buffers can help protect wildlife habitat in a development.
Natural landscaping plays a part in attracting native animals and re-establishing a natural population of wildlife and the natural cycles within which they thrive. In addition, natural landscaping can be used to create buffers which reduce urban stresses and proximity of exotic species to high quality natural areas. Native insects, including butterflies and moths, attract a wide array of songbirds, who eat the insects and the plant seeds. If a restored prairie is large enough, it might attract nesting grassland birds such as meadowlarks and bobolinks, birds whose habitat is decreasing in most parts of their range in the state. The degree of habitat value in natural landscaping depends on many factors relating to the ability of a site to provide the conditions required by specific plant and animal species.