{"id":235960,"date":"2010-01-27T08:12:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T13:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2010-01-27T08:12:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T13:12:51","slug":"texas-grasslands-to-become-climate-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/235960","title":{"rendered":"Texas grasslands to become climate classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/804\/story\/1921201.html\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.star-telegram.com\/smedia\/2010\/01\/25\/17\/Grasslands_ss_03.standalone.prod_affiliate.58.jpg\" width=\"380\" align=\"left\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/climatewire\/2010\/01\/27\/10\/\" >Climatewire<\/a>: The prairies and woodlands of North <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Ecoregions_of_Texas_%28EPA%29\">Texas<\/a> soon will become part of a project to increase scientists&#8217; understanding of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Climate_Change_%28collection%29\">climate change<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Biodiversity\">biodiversity<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Species_richness\">species<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Pollution%3A_a_brief_history\">pollution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Caddo-LBJ National Grasslands will join the National Ecological Observatory Network, a series of 20 eco-climatic domains that will be used to study the forces that affect ecosystems. The project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and has received $27 million in federal funding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s about understanding how those forces are then changing the way ecosystems function,&#8221; said Michael Keller, the nonprofit&#8217;s chief scientist. &#8220;And we are interested in how ecosystems function because we live off the products of ecosystems, whether it be wood from forests or food from farms or fresh water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other domains include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Yellowstone_National_Park%2C_United_States\">Yellowstone<\/a>, western Massachusetts, northern Wisconsin and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Appalachian-Blue_Ridge_forests\">Appalachians<\/a>. At each site, researchers will use various technologies, as well as samples of plants, animals, insects, soil and water collected by hand, to measure ecology.<\/p>\n<p>NSF needs final approval from its board and director before the plan heads to Congress for support. The network&#8217;s staff, currently at 65, will jump to 250 when the project reaches capacity in 2016 (Steve Campbell, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/804\/story\/1921201.html\" >Fort Worth <em>Star-Telegram<\/em><\/a>, Jan. 26). <strong>&#8211; EL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3085&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3085\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climatewire: The prairies and woodlands of North Texas soon will become part of a project to increase scientists&#8217; understanding of climate change, biodiversity, species and pollution. The Caddo-LBJ National Grasslands will join the National Ecological Observatory Network, a series of 20 eco-climatic domains that will be used to study the forces that affect ecosystems. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}