June 2014 - globalchange

Rhododendrons, nitrogen cycling, and global change

From VT News:

Global change research in Jeb Barrett’s lab is featured this week in VT News :

“How important is the soil beneath our feet to what grows above it?

The short answer is very, according to Virginia Tech’s Mahtaab Bagherzadeh of Annandale, Virginia, a senior majoring in biological sciences in the College of Science and a 2014 Fralin Life Science Institute Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow.

Bagherzadeh recently participated in a ...

Tamara Fetters receives NSF Research Fellowship

Tamara Fetters of Warrenton, Virginia, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Tamara is a doctoral student in biological sciences in the College of Science. She works with Joel McGlothlin, assistant professor of biological sciences, on the project “Thermal trait variation in an invasive lizard: adaptation or plasticity?” ...

Is Brazil now the world leader in tackling climate change?

Leandro Castello is a co-author on a new paper published in Science this week. The research story is featured today in The Economist.

Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains

“IN THE 1990s, when an area of Brazilian rainforest the size of Belgium was felled every year, Brazil ...