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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drought frequency has significantly increased worldwide as a result of global change, resulting in great damage to grassland ecosystem functioning. Drought events affect not only the current ...

Research co-led by the University of Maryland reveals that drought and increased temperatures in a CO 2-rich climate can dramatically alter how grasslands use and move water. "If we want to predict ...

At grassland sites worldwide, including the Midwest and Great Plains, scientists simulated extreme drought conditions. The study provides a far-reaching and systematic look at the effects of drought ...

Grasslands near El Dorado Hills, California. Grasslands play an important role in ecosystem processes. A new study by UC scientists looked at the diversity of viruses, which can control soil bacteria, ...

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 ...

Drought is predicted to increase in many areas of the world with consequences for soil carbon (C) dynamics. Plant litter, root exudates and microbial biomass can be used as C substrates to form organo ...

Roughly 40 percent of Earth’s land surface is covered by grasslands. Grasslands store about one-third of Earth’s terrestrial carbon and act as important carbon sinks. More than one million people take ...

1. Assessing drought tolerance and the ability of plants to adjust to changes in available water resources is crucial for understanding current and future distributions of plant species. While turgor ...