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Earthworms can jump
A worm is a worm is a worm, right? Except that there are more than 7,000 species of worms, and the longer you look, the more complex their world becomes. Earthworms compete. Earthworms invade. Earthworms… jump?
Latest Publications
- Projections of future wildfires impacts on air pollutants and air toxics in a changing climate over the western United States
Yang, Cheng-En; Fu, Joshua S.; Liu, Yongqiang; Dong, Xinyi; Liu, Yang. - Stronger effects of termites than microbes on wood decomposition in a subtropical forest.
Wu, Chunsheng; Ulyshen, Michael D.; Shu, Chunjie; Zhang, Zhijian; Zhang, Yi; Liu, Yuanqiu; Geoff Wang, G. - Projection of future wildfire emissions in western USA under climate change: contributions from changes in wildfire, fuel loading and fuel moisture
Yongqiang Liu, Yang Liu, Joshua Fu, etc. - Introduction to fire ecology across USA forested ecosystems: Past, present, and future
Greenberg, Cathryn H.; Collins, Beverly S.; Goodrick, Scott; Stambaugh, Michael C.; Wein, Gary R. - Non-destructive fuel volume measurements can estimate fine-scale biomass across surface fuel types in a frequently burned ecosystem
Hiers, Quinn A.; Loudermilk, E. Louise; Hawley, Christie M.; Hiers, J. Kevin; Pokswinski, Scott; Hoffman, Chad M.; O’Brien, Joseph J.