Rebecca McCulley, PhD, a grassland ecologist and researcher in the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture’s Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, is studying how climate change could affect Kentucky pastures’ composition and what those changes could mean for forage quality.

McCulley's Experiment

McCulley and her team use infrared radiant heaters to warm the air to study how climate change could affect Kentucky pastures’ composition and what those changes could mean for forage quality.

McCulley’s study–which she began in 2008–examines how predicted increase in temperatures, changes in rainfall amounts, and a lengthened growing season might impact pastures

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