Biodiversity is threatened, and conservation is urgent. The reality of limited resources for conservation requires prioritization among actions, species, and places, and the building of capacity in countries where threats are high.
What is the role of fire in peatlands? We found that low-severity fire was historically frequent in Great Lakes’ peatlands and an important ecological process that is now being suppressed.
While you might never ponder the relationships between topography, forest phenology and bird habitat quality, those questions motivate the research conducted by Maia Persche in the Baraboo Hills of Southern Wisconsin.
