"As global temperatures rise, the most threatened ecosystems are those that depend on a season of snow and ice, scientists from the nation's Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network say."The vulnerability of cool, wet areas to climate change is striking," says Julia Jones, a lead author in a special issue of the journal BioScience released April 6 featuring results from more than 30 years of LTER, a program of the National Science Foundation (NSF)." (Quoted from article)