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  1. Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend

    … his study plots were dying off due to pests like Beech Bark Disease, Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, and spongy moths. This … great delight over the years to work with Gary in his many roles, and none nicer than those in which his enthusiasm for …

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  2. Animal reservoirs—where the next SARS-CoV-2 variant could arise

    … worldwide had already succumbed to COVID-19, one infected individual—4-year-old Nadia—made global headlines. A … different hosts, stockpiling mutations that can change its behavior, transmissibility, or ability to evade vaccines and … passed it along to people, possibly in 2 or more separate events. That makes SARS-CoV-2 1 of nearly 900 zoonotic …

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  3. Cary to co-lead $4.8M study on how environmental conditions shape viral outbreaks in wild rodents

    … will monitor how changing seasons, land use, and human behavior influence viral outbreaks in wild rodent … into people. The project is co-led by Barbara Han , a disease ecologist at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies … help the researchers track the health and viral loads of individual rodents, and to estimate their movement, range, …

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  4. The Search for Animals That Could Carry the Next Deadly Virus

    … what you are looking for,” says Barbara A. Han , a disease ecologist at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in … to happen more frequently, researchers say, driven by human behavior that is difficult to change. Farms and markets … complex, not fully understood, and likely to involve random events that, by definition, can’t be predicted. “We need …

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  5. Dr. Winslow D. Hansen

    … simulations to model forest response – scaling from individual trees up to entire biomes. Together, these … run code on everything from 10-year-old laptops to national supercomputers.   Sara Germain - … to determine the effects of forest disturbance from extreme events on carbon sequestration and streamflow in Puerto …

    ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15

  6. What is a species?

    … are evaluated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on an individual case basis. And, of course, implementation of … the physical traits of color, size variation, and behavior that are used in the biological species definition. …

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  7. Victoria Kelly

    … streamwater quality, solar radiation, phenology, and the behavior of water in the landscape. Data from the program … the impact of climate change on plant and animal life cycle events (phenology), and monitoring of water at the landscape …

    ltumblety - 08/01/2023 - 09:43

  8. Antidepressant pollution alters crayfish behavior, with impacts to stream ecosystems

    Antidepressant pollution alters crayfish behavior, with impacts to stream ecosystems … two weeks of citalopram exposure caused changes in crayfish behavior, with the potential to disrupt stream ecosystem … Staff are global experts in the ecology of: cities, disease, forests, and freshwater. …

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  9. Beech Bark Disease

    Beech Bark Disease The fungi cause bark lesions that grow … disease in North America. Beech bark disease has been spreading through the American beech ( Fagus grandifolia ) … What can be done about beech bark disease? For individual trees, either systemic or surface-applied …

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  10. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    How Lyme disease became unstoppable There was nothing … though less of a mystery, remains confounding, and it is spreading, sometimes to devastating effect. From that … change was the greatest driver of known zoonotic spillover events in recent decades. This finding fits well with the …

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