Biome in Biological News

BioScience tip sheet, October 2008

... the lower 48 states finds that restored lands offer 31 percent to 93 percent of native land benefits within a decade of restoration, depending on the biome and the goods and services of interest. The results indicate conservation should be the first priority in planning, but that restoration can have subs...

Climate change and species distributions

...ent. Species are thus forced to move elsewhere to find places to live and food to eat. "Impacts on individual species indicate wider changes at the biome level that will potentially change conditions for many plant and animal species, in addition to ecosystem services to humans," says Patrick Gonzalez, ...

Environmental researchers propose radical 'human-centric' map of the world

...ting instrumentation in our back yards both literal and metaphorical to study what's going on there in terms of ecosystem functioning." Existing biome classification systems are based on natural-world factors such as plant structures, leaf types, plant spacing and climate. The Bailey System, develope...

Univ. of Arizona receives $2.5 million to study Amazon forests and climate change

... will take a field course in Brazil's Amazon forest about tropical ecology and biogeochemistry, conduct related experiments within the tropical forest biome at UA's Biosphere 2 and work with Brazilian scientists and students through exchanges at Brazilian scientific institutions. "Our project has a glob...

Wildfire drives carbon levels in northern forests

...ska, Siberia, China, and Scandinavia. Their sheer size, coupled with the fact that they are expected to experience the greatest warming of any forest biome as global temperatures rise, means that climate-related changes here are likely to resonate well beyond the forest boundaries, says S. Tom Gower, UW-M...

The conservation lens

...wn groups of organisms can motivate the protection of whole ecosystems, says Rozzi. When it comes to conservation and understanding biodiversity, a biome or regional approach to identify suitable ecosystem indicator groups can be more useful than a set of global indicator species. This, say the authors,...