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Increase In Rainfall Variability Related To Global Climate Change; Impacts On Ecosystems Are Greater Than Previously Anticipated
December 13, 2002 — Projected increases in rainfall variability resulting from changes in global climate can rapidly reduce productivity and alter the composition of grassland plants, according to scientists funded by ... > full story -
Scientists Find Insects Can Alter Plant Chemistry To Help Them Find Mates
November 19, 2002 — Each spring, amid the decaying rubble of dead prairie plants, emerging male gall wasps find mates by calling upon the chemistry prowess of their predecessors, entomologists scouring Central Illinois ... > full story -
Scientists Find Grass Yield, Carbon Storage Not Affected By Creepy-Crawlies In The Soil
October 21, 2002 — New results from experiments at a unique ecology facility show that plant communities are dramatically altered by changes to the type of animal species living among their roots, but that key ... > full story -
Trees Encroaching Grasslands May Lock Up Less Carbon Than Predicted
August 9, 2002 — The woody trees and shrubs now "invading" former grassland in parts of the United States may be sequestering less human-caused atmospheric carbon emissions than predicted, concluded new ... > full story -
End Of "Free Ride" On Ecosystem CO2 Absorption
May 16, 2002 — According to a new study, the world may soon see the end of the "free ride," in which carbon absorption by natural ecosystems ameliorates the rise in atmospheric CO2 due to fossil fuel ... > full story -
Chinese Tallow Tree Invades Texas Prairies
February 25, 2002 — The Chinese tallow tree has been turning Gulf Coast grasslands into single-species forests, and Rice University ecologist Evan Siemann hopes to find out how this tree has been able to "break all ... > full story -
Scientists From Syracuse University And The Netherlands Create First Global Map Of Grazing Mammal Biodiversity
February 21, 2002 — A team of biologists at Syracuse University and Wageningen University in the Netherlands has created the first global map of “biodiversity hotspots” or areas that have the most potential ... > full story -
Increased Water Vapor In Stratosphere Possibly Caused By Tropical Biomass Burning
February 21, 2002 — The doubling of the moisture content in the stratosphere over the last 50 years was caused, at least in part, by tropical biomass burning, a Yale researcher has concluded from examining satellite ... > full story -
Common Native Plant Of Great Plains May Be Threatened By Climate Change
October 8, 2001 — A common Great Plains prairie plant, the partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata), could face severe reduction in numbers if climate conditions in the Midwest change to the extremes predicted for the ... > full story -
Texas Tortoise And Cattle Can Co-Exist
July 23, 2001 — The conventional wisdom is that tortoises and cattle don't mix. But new research shows that the Texas tortoise and cattle can share rangelands as long as the grazing is managed. ... > full story
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