[MCN] Not having to shovel snow anymore sounds great, and yet, at the same time....

[Lance Olsen]

“For many terrestrial organisms in the Northern Hemisphere, winter is … survivable only because a seasonal refugium - the “subnivium” - exists beneath the snow. 

"We believe that ecologists and managers are overlooking this widespread, crucial, and vulnerable seasonal refugium, which is rapidly deteriorating due to global climate change” 

Pauli et al ( 2013). The subnivium: a deteriorating seasonal refugium.

 Frontiers in Ecology and Environment

<<https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/120222 <https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/120222>>>

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