round the world, climate change is reshaping habitats already at their limits. In northeastern Minnesota, near the Canadian border, lies a boreal biome at the southern edge of its climate range. This swath of mixed coniferous forest transitions to temperate forest to the south and drier woodland and prairie to the west. Warmer winters, longer and hotter summers, and more variable precipitation ranges are now transforming the region, and these shifts have profound implications
On the Edge
Sep 26, 2022
3 minutes
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