Climate change is affecting the hydrology of high-elevation mountain ecosystems, with implications for ecosystem functioning and water availability to downstream consumers. To quantify the water ...

Forests around the world are undergoing rapid changes due to changing climate and increasing physiological stress, but forest response to climate at the ecosystem scale can be highly variable due to ...

Over 4,800 years in the Northern Rockies during wet periods and dry periods, subalpine forests consistently recovered from wildfires, growing back vegetation and leaving evidence of their resilience ...

The wildflowers of Mount Rainier's subalpine meadows, which bloom once the winter snowpack melts, are a major draw for the more than 1 million visitors to this national park in Washington state each ...

Aims Grasslands are among the largest ecosystems in the world and store up to 30% of the global reserves of carbon. Decomposition processes have a crucial role in maintaining carbon balance, but few ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... With two sets of cars, the Western Ute Trail can be an easy downhill trek in Rocky Mountain National Park that takes you through alpine and subalpine ...

We studied the impact of a sustained high elevation rain event in mid-summer on the biogeochemistry of dissolved organic material (DOM) in aquatic ecosystems in the Colorado Front Range. In the Green ...

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Covington states in his Commentary 1 that the open ponderosa pine forests of the western United States are “in widespread collapse” because fire suppression by humans has eliminated the low-intensity ...

A ground-breaking new study has found carbon emissions from Australian alpine peatlands to be much higher in areas disturbed by feral horses. A ground-breaking new study by RMIT has found carbon ...

Spring is coming, and with it comes the promise of warmer weather, longer days and renewed life. For residents of the Pacific Northwest, one of the most idyllic scenes of this renewed life is the ...