Counterintuitive conservation: Fire boosts aquatic crustaceans in U.S. savannas
As a field biologist, Keith Perchemlides has often watched flames dance around tiny ponds that mark the remains of a vast wetland that once covered a large part of southwestern Oregon’s Rogue River Valley. Often, he was the one that set fire to the dry grass. Back then, he was working for The Nature Conservancy […]
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