Aquatic Ecosystems Source of Half of Global Methane Emissions

Aquatic Ecosystems Source of Half of Global Methane Emissions
April 9, 2021

A fascinating study from YIBS G.E. Hutchinson Environmental Postdoctoral Associate, Judith Rosentreter examines how direct human alterations to natural aquatic ecosystems can increase methane emissions. To learn more, please click here for an article published by Yale News

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Southern Appalachian salamander at Grandfather Mountain State Park, North Carolina.

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A new framework: A recent paper calls for biologists to rethink how they analyze the impact of climate

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By Steve Scarpa A new paper calls for ecologists and evolutionary biologists to consider how organisms experience climate rather than how weather stations record it when...