[MCN] Leaving leaf litter on the ground helps pollinators survive the winter!

[Lance Olsen]

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Leaving leaf litter on the ground helps pollinators survive the winter! NPS / Billy Flynn. A cozy blanket for pollinators. For many insects, leaf ...



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“ ….  our choices for deadly heat are now between more of it or a lot more of it.”

Camilo Mora et al. Twenty-Seven Ways a Heat Wave Can Kill You: Deadly Heat in the Era of Climate Change. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 9 November 2017

<<https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233>

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"Precipitation is just the supply side," said study coauthor Jason Smerdon, a Lamont-Doherty paleoclimatologist. "Temperature is on the demand side, the part that dries things out."

"If we don't see it coming in stronger in, say, the next 10 years, we might have to wonder whether we are right," said [ lead author Kate ] Marvel. "But all the models are projecting that you should see unprecedented drying soon, in a lot of places."

<<https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/eiac-ssf042919.php>>




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