University of Michigan-Dearborn athletics will play this spring
University changes course, will allow teams to play this spring
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DEARBORN, Mich. – The University of Michigan-Dearborn has reversed its course and will now allow its spring sports teams to play with stricter health guidelines agreed upon by other schools.
The university originally decided Wednesday to cancel its spring sports season for the second straight year despite other schools in the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference continuing on with their sports.
According to the university, the reason for cancellation was that other schools were not planning to adhere to COVID safety protocols.
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IMAGE: The intermountain bunchgrass prairie at the National Bison Range, Montana, USA at one of the study areas. view more
Credit: Gary Belovsky
Over 40 years of monitoring, an endangered bunchgrass prairie became hotter, drier and more susceptible to fire annually but dramatic seasonal changes (not annual climate trends) seem to be driving the biggest changes in plant production, composition, and summer senescence. Gary Belovsky and Jennifer Slade of The University of Notre Dame, Indiana, present these findings in the open-access journal
PLOS ONE on December 23.
Intermountain bunchgrass prairie is one of North America s most endangered ecosystems, now covering less than 1 percent of the area it once did. Over the past century, bunchgrass prairies have become warmer and drier, and human-driven climate change is expected to continue that trend, with potential impacts on bunchgrass ecosystems. However, bunchgrass is often overlooked in studies of grasslands.