LAist

Plants and their pollinators are increasingly out of sync

For the past four years, plant biologist Elsa Godtfredsen has trekked to a subalpine meadow in Colorado to study the interactions between wildflowers and bumblebees. The pollinators buzz among fields ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Research highlight: Dr. Keith Musselman and the EcoTram

High up in the subalpine forest of the Como Creek Watershed, in a landscape shaped by snow and wind, CU Boulder’s own Dr. Keith Musselman and collaborators have built one of the most ambitious and ...
Times Union

I’ve visited the same Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow weekly for a decade of summers looking at plant-pollinator interactions – here’s what I learned

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Julian Resasco, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine a bee ...
EurekAlert!

Mechanisms stabilizing Japanese moorlands, species asynchrony, and species and compositional stability

Our study provides general empirical evidence that species asynchrony, species stability, and compositional stability jointly stabilize (purple arrows), while bryophyte cover destabilizes (red arrows) ...
esa.org

Even untouched ecosystems are losing insects at alarming rates, new study finds

A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that insect populations are rapidly declining even in relatively undisturbed landscapes, raising concerns about the health of ...