Biomes are the world's major habitats. These habitats are identified by the vegetation and animals that populate them. The regional climate determines each biome's location. Grassland biomes have cold ...

As much as one-fifth of the Earth's surface is covered in wild grasses in biomes known, aptly, as grasslands. These biomes are characterized by the plants that grow there, but they also attract a ...

These areas are known by different names throughout the world. They can look desolate, generally containing few or no trees, except in areas along rivers and streams. But they are vibrant ecosystems, ...

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 ...

This may be the most bizarre map I have ever seen the U.S. Forest Service put out for Oregon and Washington. Where did the bridges go? First, some background. The is managed as part of the Ochoco ...

The effect of climatic variation on terrestrial aboveground productivity (ANPP) has been well studied. However, little is known about how variable climate, including drought, may influence belowground ...

Patch size and isolation are thought to have a large influence on the extinction risk of specialist plant species in grassland fragments in the modern agricultural landscape. We combined a re-sampling ...