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Grasslands in Asia and North America differ in their responses to drought, according to a new article. The findings show that differences in the dominant grasses and lower species diversity in the ...

Study author Dr Dirk Karger, a senior researcher at the Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL), tells Carbon Brief: “Everybody was talking about droughts, [that they] will be more [frequent] with ...

The Great Plains of North America fall under a biome designated “temperate grasslands” by the World Wide Fund for Nature, formerly The World Wildlife Fund. These areas are typically marked by a ...

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which subjects a temperate grassland to individual and combined atmospheric warming (+3 °C), CO 2 enrichment (+ 300 ppm), and recurring drought. Image Credit: Markus Herndl The study is the first ...

The findings were published in the journal Science. Grasslands cover almost 40 per cent of the Earth's surface and are key to the global water cycle. Nevertheless, the impact of climate change on ...

Drought in a warmer, CO 2 -rich climate restricts grassland water use and soil water mixing. Science , 2025; 387 (6731): 290 DOI: 10.1126/science.ado0734 Cite This Page : ...

Research co-led by the University of Maryland reveals that drought and increased temperatures in a CO 2-rich climate can dramatically alter how grasslands use and move water. "If we want to ...