Month: June 2016

(Lakeshore Nature Preserve Student Engagement Award) Rising winter temperatures are increasing the number of freeze-thaw cycles in the soil, exposing plant root systems to more extreme frost events. Plants with relatively higher root frost tolerances …

We studied how soil tilling influences the abundance and coverage of weeds in the Biocore Prairie in preparation for planting prairie seeds. Tillage generally decreases weeds overtime by increasing seed germination and depleting the seed …