Climate change will have a considerable influence on the biodiversity and productivity of meadows and pastures. However, according to the results of the large-scale climate and land use experiment, ...

CU Boulder Ecology and Evolutionary Biology scientist Katharine Suding is leading ongoing research in partnership with City of Boulder Open Space At first glance, grasslands may not display an obvious ...

When extreme drought strikes, drier grasslands receive the greatest productivity benefit from biodiversity. By contrast, ...

What pace do ecosystems respond to climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the time it takes for ...

Grassland ecosystems, like that of the Carrizo Plain National Monument in California, are seeing their biodiversity shift rapidly with changing climate. Although all ecosystems are affected by a ...

Homes built in areas with grasslands and shrublands face a greater risk of fire as development expands and the effects of climate change intensify. However, a new report published Thursday finds that ...

While ecosystems like forests are seeing slow shifts in biodiversity due to climate change, the biological makeup of grasslands are changing rapidly, according to a recent study published by the ...

Climate change will have a considerable influence on the biodiversity and productivity of meadows and pastures. However, according to the results of the large-scale climate and land use experiment the ...

Mr. Langellier is a writer who works in botany and ecological restoration in the Missouri Ozarks. Ms. Fondriest is a documentary photographer based in the Ozarks region of Arkansas. See more of our ...

For years, scientists assumed that changes in drought intensity had gradual impacts on grassland, with the vegetation adapting to the reduced availability of water over time. However, a recent study ...