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Experts from all four U.S. border states with Mexico, gathered at the University of Arizona, want to develop a standardized system to document migrant deaths. ....
Every year, hundreds of Central and South American migrants risk their lives in pursuit of entry into the U.S. for a better life. Crossing often means trying to survive punishing ....
Search The Newsoom Auburn University professor co-authors BioScience study re-examining role of mesophication in declining prominence of oak landscapes in US Published: January 27, 2021 Decrease Font Size Font Size Increase Font Size Article body An Auburn University professor has published a study reviewing the commonly held hypothesis mesophication that fire exclusion is responsible for reducing the prominence of oak trees across the central and eastern United States. Heather Alexander, assistant professor of forest ecology in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, served as lead author of a multi-institution study that investigated mesophication, a condition that occurs when forests become shadier, moister and less flammable. This enables encroaching species to create conditions favorable for their own persistence at the expense of pyrophytic, or fire-tolerant, species. ....