| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/05/07, 9:46 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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For plants and animals forced to tough out harsh winter weather, the coverlet of snow that blankets the north country is a refuge, a stable
beneath-the-snow habitat that gives essential respite from biting winds
and subzero temperatures.
But in a warming world, winter and spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere is in decline, putting at risk many plants and animals that
depend on the space beneath the snow to survive the blustery chill of
winter.In a report published May 2 in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison describes
the gradual decay of the Northern Hemisphere's "subnivium," the term
scientists use to describe the seasonal microenvironment beneath the
snow, a habitat where life from microbes to bears take full advantage of
warmer temperatures, near constant humidity and the absence of wind.
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