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 ...

A new national monitoring program provides, for the first time, area-representative knowledge of semi-natural grasslands in Norway. The results show that this habitat covers a larger area than ...

Grasslands are responding to climate change almost in real time, according to new research. Although all ecosystems are affected by a changing climate, the impacts can take a while to appear. Changes ...

The threatened eastern meadowlark is one of several ground-nesting species that live on the 110-acre parcel, which was recently preserved by the Vermont wildlife department. Jill Kilborn, right, and ...

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CU Boulder Ecology and Evolutionary Biology scientist Katharine Suding is leading ongoing research in partnership with City of Boulder Open Space At first glance, grasslands may not display an obvious ...

The sun is the basis for photosynthesis, but not all plants thrive in strong sunlight. Strong sunlight constrains plant ...