New research shows that the presence of solar panels in Colorado's grasslands may reduce water stress, improve soil moisture levels and -- particularly during dry years -- increase plant growth by ...

Sea of Grass,” written by Dave Hage and former Star Tribune environmental reporter Josephine Marcotty, is due in bookstores ...

who is examining the microbial ecology of soil from Tilman's plots of Minnesota grassland. “No one can really manipulate bacteria in a natural system, so you usually bring it into the lab.” ...

Grassland Middle School is a public school located in Franklin, TN, which is in a fringe rural setting. The student population of Grassland Middle School is 862 and the school serves 6-8.

We have excellent teaching, research, and outreach programs in the areas of plant biology (cellular, genetics, genomics, microbial, molecular and physiology), agronomy (including pathology, soil ...

Some of the world’s main biomes include rainforest, desert, savannah, grassland, woodland and tundra ... long and summers are short. Part of the soil is frozen all year round, although the ...

Soil total carbon (C) decreased after a decade of eP treatment, while plant root production decreased after 2 years. To explain this asynchrony, we found that the relative abundances of fungal genes ...

Grasses growing in the shade of a solar array were only a little less productive than those growing nearby in open grassland during years of average and above-average rainfall – but in a dry year, the ...

May 14, 2025 — Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. Researchers have analyzed 917 native forest plant ...

to analyze taxonomic and functional gene compositions of the soil microbial community after 14 years of warming (at 0.8-1.0 degrees C for 10 years and then 1.5-2.0 degrees C for 4 years) in a ...