forest ecosystems

A rare April freeze in 2007 provided researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory with further evidence that climate change could have negative effects on stream and forest ecosystems.

There is increasing recognition that many aspects of human well-being are linked to functions of healthy ecosystems and the services they provide to society at local to global scales.

Societal pressures can contaminate habitats, reduce their area, alter community composition, and otherwise degrade ecosystems in ways that may ultimately result in adverse human impacts.

This research explored the role of forest fragmentation in Lyme disease.

Failing to see the forest for the trees may be causing us to overlook the declining health of Wisconsin's forest ecosystems.