A global study organized and led by Colorado State University scientists shows that the effects of extreme drought—which is expected to increase in frequency with climate change—has been greatly ...
Wildfire is transforming some forestlands into shrublands, a new study finds. The results suggest these forests, which are used to living with and even benefiting from fire, have not yet adapted to ...
Melinda Smith from Colorado State University conducts research in the field of grasslands and shrublands measuring extreme drought among those two biomes. A global study by Colorado State University ...
A new study finds that Medicare costs tend to be lower in counties with more forests and shrublands than in counties dominated by other types of land cover. The relationship persists even when ...
UC Santa Cruz Environmental Studies Professor Michael Loik. Photo credit: Michael Loik. UC Santa Cruz students measured plant growth and photosynthesis beneath rainfall manipulation structures at ...
Rainforests on infertile wet soils support more than half of all plant species. Shrublands on infertile dry soils in southwestern Australia, jokingly called 'knee-high tropical rainforests', support ...
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