Changing climate and fire in the western United States may drive extensive forest loss by century’s end. Current areas of poor postfire forest recovery, like this area in Greater Yellowstone, portend the future of these landscapes. Photo: Nathan Kiel.
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The Pine Barrens of Long Island are a unique forest type associated with nutrient poor soils with almost no non-native invasive plant species present. Studying these forests, along with nearby invaded ones, is useful for understanding the determinants of community invasibility. Photo credit: Urmi Poddar.
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Konza Prairie is a remarkably diverse tallgrass prairie remnant in the eastern North American Great Plains. The dominant plant species, Andropogon gerardii, plays a major role in structuring communities. Photo credit: Alex Siggers.
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North Carolina Longleaf Pine Savanna where >500 undergraduate students investigated the effects of heatwaves on dominant understory grasses in a series of greenhouse experiments as a part of the Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE). Photo credit: Alyssa Young.
A spider hunts above an epiphytic bromeliad in the canopy of Santa Fe National Park, Veraguas, Panama. Photo credit: Michelle Spicer
One of the research sites in the Cerrado in eastern Brazil where soil, roots and tree above-ground carbon stocks were studied. Photo credit: M.C.N.S. Terra.