![Institute for Global Change Biology](/sites/default/files/styles/hero/public/2020-05/GCB-hero.jpg?itok=t49gAxRV)
Theme: Climate change and ecosystem health
Climate change and forest ecosystems
Disentangling the complex effects of climate change on forest ecosystems.
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Soil-fungal community responses to climate change
Synthesizing experiments and observations of soil-fungal community responses to climate change
Elevated CO2 and grassland ecosystem function
Understanding the effects of climatic changes on North American grasslands.
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Effects of warming on montane ecosystems
Understanding the relative effects of climate warming and shifts in species abundances on montane ecosystems.
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Earlier seasonal rainfall impacts on communities & ecosystems
Looking into how altered precipitation seasonality affects plant diversity and biomass by experimentally increasing spring precipitation via manual irrigation and decreasing summer precipitation using rainout shelters.
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Climate change and forest tree phenology
Understanding and projecting phenology during climate change with experimental and observational data.
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Shifts in snowmelt timing drive communities & ecosystems
Assessing influences of snowmelt date on net ecosystem exchange and what role do shifts in plant communities and abiotic conditions play in the response of NEE?
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Climate change and lake chemistry
Understanding how low-oxygen lake systems might react to climate change.
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Biodiversity of soil fungi
Investigating how potential climate change may affect microbial redistributions and therefore ecosystem functions at the continental scale.
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Hurricane disturbance and shifts in forests
Can functional traits predict the mortality on forest plant communities after hurricanes?
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Do competitive effects trump climatic stimulation in grassy ecosystems?
Predicting grassland community interactions in future high CO2 climates.
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Shifts in richness and abundance across Chinese subtropical forests from a half-century window
Providing novel insights for the management and conservation of subtropical forests under climate change.
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Effects of climate change and disturbance regime shifts on vegetation
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Forest multifunctionality: a new approach to forecasting resilience under climate change
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