Scientific research is a collaborative process. Sometimes that looks like a lot of small contributions from a whole lot of researchers. UC Santa Barbara’s Sedgwick Reserve was among 100 sites on six ...

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 ...

Research published in the journal Science on water-deprived plants involved Texas Field Station Network experts. Rain-out shelters at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center help researchers simulate ...

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 ...

Forest fires can devastate vast swaths of land, but in the United States, another category of conflagrations takes the title of most destructive. Of the homes destroyed in wildfires across the ...

What remains of the stunning shortgrass prairie of eastern Colorado is at even more risk of die-off than previously thought, threatened by increasingly common extreme droughts. The same fate awaits ...

NUNN, Colo. — Short-term drought causes extensive loss of grasslands and shrublands, according to new research from Colorado State University. Drought is always coming and going from the landscape, so ...

Grassland and shrubland fires burn more land and destroy more homes across the United States than forest fires, a new study found. By Nadja Popovich Forest fires may get more attention, but a new ...

A global research effort led by Colorado State University shows that extreme, prolonged drought conditions in grasslands and shrublands would greatly limit the long-term health of crucial ecosystems ...

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