Decline in snow cover spells trouble for many plants, animals
For plants and animals forced to tough out harsh winter weather, a stable beneath-the-snow habitat gives essential respite from biting winds and subzero temperatures. But in a warming world, winter and spring snow cover is in decline in the Northern Hemisphere, putting many plants and animals at risk.
Spring flowers keep pace with warming climate
Using the meticulous phenological records of two iconic American naturalists, Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold, scientists have demonstrated that native plants in the eastern United States are flowering as much as a month earlier in response to a warming climate.
Mapping effort charts restoration tack for Great Lakes
As the federal government builds on its $1 billion investment to clean up and restore the Great Lakes, an international research consortium has developed innovative new maps to help guide cost-effective approaches to environmental remediation of the world's largest fresh water resource.
'Lake mixing' targets invasive fish
In an experiment playing out on a small lake in northern Wisconsin, scientists from the UW-Madison are deploying a novel lake-mixing technology to alter the lake's temperature profile and see if warmer water will drive out the cold water-loving rainbow smelt, an invasive sardine-sized fish.
Northwoods partnership benefits today's climate research and tomorrow's scientists
For the second year in a row, Assoc. Prof. Ankur Desai traveled to Wisconsin's north woods in September, partnering with the College of Menominee Nation to bring students into the field as climate researchers.
Wisconsin Ecology: New cohort carries on century-old tradition
From sloth populations in Costa Rica to fish migrating along Southeast Asia's Mekong River, ecology is everywhere. Yet for many of the brightest minds in the field, the UW-Madison is the base camp from which to study some of the world's greatest conservation challenges.
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