A new conceptual framework for incorporating the way plants use carbon and water, or plant dynamics, into fine-scale computer models of wildland fire provides a critical first step toward improved global fire forecasting.
Tag: Plant Physiology

How do different root structures affect soil?
Root architecture, formation play key roles in modifying soil

How trees affect the weather
Trees’ water-use strategies can intensify droughts Nature, said Ralph Waldo Emerson, is no spendthrift. Unfortunately, he was wrong. New research led by University of Utah biologists William Anderegg, Anna Trugman and David Bowling find that some plants and trees are…