Tag: Vegetation

Study Wins Water Resources Research Editor’s Choice Award

by Jim Vose, SRS senior research ecologist  • 
Over the last three decades, forest vegetation has begun using significantly more water, as long-term climate and streamflow data reveal. USDA Forest Service scientists Jim Vose and Dave Wear contributed to the study, which was led by Taehee Hwang, an assistant professor at the University of Indiana. The findings were published in the journal Water…  More 

Forest Service Researchers Map Seasonal Greening in U.S. Forests, Fields, and Urban Areas

by Stephanie Worley Firley, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center  • 
Using the assessment tool ForWarn, U.S. Forest Service researchers can monitor the growth and development of vegetation that signals winter’s end and the awakening of a new growing season. Now these researchers have devised a way to more precisely characterize the beginning of seasonal greening, or “greenup,” and compare its timing with that of the…  More