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When it comes to global plant production, new study suggests phosphorus matters everywhere

Posted by Heather Tate on March 30, 2020

Challenging long-held assumptions that phosphorus limits aboveground plant growth mainly in tropical regions, a new paper in Nature Communications by NAU authors suggests that this important nutrient actually helps govern plant production in temperate regions, too, and on every continent except Antarctica.


Analyzing data from phosphorus field experiments conducted worldwide between 1955-2017, authors Enqing… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences

Innovative greenhouse gas detection software to help cities improve air quality

Posted by Heather Tate on February 20, 2020

Kevin Gurney working on his computer in his office. Professor Kevin Gurney of NAU’s School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems is building a detailed three-dimensional map of the urban Washington, D.C. area that will reveal every source of greenhouse gas being emitted into the atmosphere down to individual buildings, like the Pentagon, and roads such as Pennsylvania Ave.… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, NAU Innovations, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

NAU scientists help chart a path to understand how Arctic vegetation is changing

Posted by Heather Tate on January 31, 2020

Scott Goetz
Professor Scott Goetz and assistant research professor Logan Berner (not pictured) are involved in an effort that brings together remote sensing scientists and field ecologists to provide a better understanding of how vegetation is changing across the Arctic

As Arctic tundra has warmed more than twice as fast as the rest of… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

NAU scientists, national partners win $3.3 million to study microbes’ role in a changing world

Posted by Heather Tate on January 28, 2020

Illustration ofIf the fate of carbon is a test that planet Earth is taking right now, one of the answer keys is likely to be found in soil, where microorganisms—which account for nearly 15 percent of global biomass, by some estimates—eat, store and respire carbon and other nutrients. As Earth warms, how these microbes change the way they live will have potentially big consequences for where the carbon goes.

Now, a team… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences

Larger, more frequent fires in the boreal forest threaten previously protected carbon stores, NAU-led research team reports in Nature

Posted by Heather Tate on August 21, 2019

Legacy Carbon illustrationPools of old carbon in the soil of boreal forests historically safe from combustion are being released by more frequent and larger wildfires, a team led by researchers at Northern Arizona University announced in Nature this week. As the climate of these forests in the Northwest Territories of Canada becomes warmer and drier and… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Woods Hole Research Center

NAU scientists publish first estimate of carbon emissions from 2014 mega-fires in Canada’s boreal forests

Posted by Heather Tate on May 18, 2018

Illustration of carbon emmissionsThe boreal forest is home to one-third of the Earth’s forest cover and stores 40 percent of the planet’s terrestrial carbon. North America’s boreal forest alone, which spans the northern portion of the continent from Alaska all the way to Newfoundland, covers an astounding 1.5 billion acres—more than 2.3 million square miles.

As mega-fires in the boreal forest become more frequent and more intense, scientists believe the burning of… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Woods Hole Research Center

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