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Contact: Jim Erickson ANN ARBOR—A new analysis of more than 20,000 trees on five continents shows that old-growth trees are more drought tolerant than younger trees in the forest canopy and may be...
ericksn@umich.edu ANN ARBOR—Even relatively modest climate warming and associated precipitation shifts may dramatically alter Earth's northernmost forests, which constitute one of the planet's largest...
Peter Reich, director of the Institute for Global Change Biology at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, has been ranked the No. 1 ecology and evolution scientist in the world and in the...
Contact: Jim Erickson Since the mid-20th century, research and discussion has focused on the negative effects of excess nitrogen on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. However, new evidence indicates...
ANN ARBOR—A new study involving more than 100 scientists from across the globe and the largest forest database yet assembled estimates that there are about 73,000 tree species on Earth, including...
Dr. Peter Reich, a renowned expert in forest ecology, has been named Director of the Institute for Global Change Biology (IGCB) at SEAS. Reich, who has conducted global change research on plants...
SEAS postdoctoral fellow Marketa Zimova is a member of the research team that completed the new study, "Balancing selection and drift in a polymorphic salamander metapopulation," published today in...
New institute led by Burton, Ibáñez, funded under U-M Biosciences Initiative, is designed to provide the interdisciplinary science needed to manage biological systems under global change. The new U-M...
