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 ...

Prolonged and extreme drought conditions in grasslands and shrublands would greatly limit the long-term health of crucial ecosystems that cover nearly half the planet. This is the result of the ...

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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 ...

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 ...