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Contacts: Cody Abramson Jim Erickson ANN ARBOR—Plant life plays a crucial role in fighting climate change by absorbing and transforming greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. For instance, over its...
Contact: Jim Erickson | Michigan News Preserving the diversity of forests assures their productivity and potentially increases the accumulation of carbon and nitrogen in the soil, which helps to...
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...
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...
