Sleeping Bear Dunes: Climate Change Effects on Dune Plants
Channel: Midwest National Parks
Date: 2015-11-09

The great lakes dunes are amongst the largest freshwater dune systems in the world. Plants and dune ecosystems may respond differently to the projected changes in temperature and precipitation due to climate change. Here Lukas Bell_Dereske, a Univ. New Mexico Ph.D. student, talks about an experiment he has conducted to find how climate change may affect the vegetation in the dunes of western Michigan.The research project was funded by the George Wright Climate Change Fellowship Program. .