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With global challenges in mind, keeping a decades-long success story at the forefront
… Acid Rain , … of what became a national monitoring program for precipitation chemistry. After its discovery in the US, … States at 10-year intervals showing declines in different components of acid rain. For instance, the eastern portion …
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Is the coronavirus pandemic related to meat production?
… that part’s true. But within this pandemic, eating meat versus being a vegetarian doesn’t have much bearing. … change and biodiversity loss are the two most important anthropogenic disturbances profoundly affecting life on our … a focus on the intrinsic value of nature, of diversity, of natural areas, wilderness, etc. But there is also very …
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Why oceanic islands buck biodiversity trends
… by comparing the number of species on oceanic islands versus continents. For each of 212 oceanic islands, they … by distance from the mainland, area, elevation range, precipitation, and mutualism filters. They found that … distance from the mainland, area, elevation range, and precipitation — together accounted for 24.5% of the lack …
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Dr. Winslow D. Hansen
… forest ecology, social-ecological resilience, natural disturbance 845 677-7600 … as well as a Visiting Scientist at the American Museum of Natural History in the Center for Biodiversity and … for changing fire regimes in the Sonoran Desert and anthropogenic impacts on mutualist interactions (seed …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15
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Road salt pollution in many US lakes could stabilize at or below EPA thresholds
… the amount of road salt applied per road mile, and precipitation. Hydrologic fluxes were taken into account to … Among other things, the model ignores salt inputs from natural rock weathering and from human activities like … — such as land use or climate change — alter both precipitation and the need for road salt application. …
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Victoria Kelly
… , which includes monitoring climate as well as air, precipitation and streamwater quality, solar radiation, … dynamics of road salt and the effects of climate change on precipitation chemistry. Current projects include the … and monitoring of water at the landscape scale. Recent publications include Road Salt: The Problem, The Solution, …
ltumblety - 08/01/2023 - 09:43
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… pollution monitoring, to prevent damage to our nation’s natural resources. Cary Senior Scientist Emeritus Charlie … probing mind, kind nature, and commitment to protecting the natural world, in particular forests. “Gary had a … plan for the town, and was in the process of leading a Natural Resource Inventory at the time of his death. Our …
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Exposure to past temperature variability may help forests cope with climate change
… monthly mean, minimum, and maximum temperatures, total precipitation, and mean vapor pressure deficit (a measure of … same was not true for forest responses to variability in precipitation and vapor pressure deficit. This may be due to … Albrich – Technical University of Munich, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, & Columbia …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… some people believe that Lyme disease didn’t spill over naturally. Because Burgdorfer had ties to the US military, … that may have played a role in regulating the various components of the Lyme disease system. We have … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Squirrels could make monkeypox a forever problem
… It takes more to “figure out which one is a reservoir, versus which ones get infected, but aren’t actually … to pinpoint the original source. Unveiling those natural origins is key to blocking the virus from moving …
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