Grasslands Science Report

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EurekAlert! Science Reporting for Kids, Part A Name:__________________ Lesson Title: Simulating Climate Change Research in Grasslands Page 1 of 1 Contact: Science Press Package scipak@aaas.org 202-326-6440 American Association for the Advancement of Science 1-Feb-2007 More time tells a different story about plants and climate change Ecologists studying the effects of climate change on a California grassland, found that observing the interactions between plants and insects over five years, provides better information than one- or two-year-long studies on a single plant or insect. Scientist Blake Suttle explained that they "manipulated the climate and saw how the grassland reorganized itself. The response was very different than we expected…show more content…
All rights reserved. Science NetLinks Student Sheets may be reproduced for educational purposes. EurekAlert! Science Reporting for Kids, Part B Name:_________________ Lesson Title: Simulating Climate Change Research in Grasslands Page 2 of 2 From those experiences "I knew that field research and ecology was what I wanted to do with my life," he said. "Ecology is the science that examines the distribution of species and abundance on Earth." Suttle went to graduate school at the University of California Berkeley and began working on this large research project three and on-half hours away from the university. "I spent months living at the field site setting up an irrigation system for watering the plants. The project is based on an area of thousands of acres of preserved land." "I spent every summer there and taught classes in the fall," Suttle said. The rest of the year I spent a lot of time in the field collecting data." [The full story is found at http://www.eurekalert.org/features/kids/2007-02/aaft-mtt012607.php.] All rights reserved. Science NetLinks Student Sheets may be reproduced for educational

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