Peter Adler and Michael Stemkovski (IMAGE)

S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources, Utah State University

Peter Adler and Michael Stemkovski

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Rooted in the soil, plants have access only to what is immediately available in their environment — water, nutrients, sunlight, and temperature. Their immediate circumstances determine whether they live and reproduce, or wither and die. Even seemingly small tweaks in these basic elements have the potential to trigger a landscape-level demise for entire swaths of grasses, shrubs and trees.

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Levi Sim

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