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Home Articles posted by Kerry Woods (Page 3)

Huron Mountain forests are massive — but are they growing?

A new publication by Dr. Kerry Woods, Bennington College, uses long-term study plots at the Huron Mountains to gain unique insight into the carbon status of old-growth hemlock-northern hardwood forests.  The combined living and dead biomass/carbon pools in the stands sampled are very large for eastern North America, but dynamics …

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Kerry Woods August 28, 2014 October 4, 2014Uncategorized 0

Nomadic Crossbills and Cryptospecies

Cody Porter, a grad student at University of Wyoming, is hoping to determine the taxonomic identity of red crossbills. Red crossbills (Loxia curvirostra) — sparrow-sized finches — are nomads.  They have no set range or territory but wander in flocks, over vast regions in search of conifer seeds.   If a …

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Kerry Woods August 28, 2014 October 4, 2014Uncategorized 0
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