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Toward a more inclusive definition of green infrastructure
Toward a more inclusive definition of green infrastructure … When they do, they tend to focus on stormwater management, favoring engineered facilities over parks and … Green infrastructure has its roots in 19th century landscape design. Its original conceptualization was broad, …
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Transforming urban systems: Toward sustainability
Transforming urban systems: Toward sustainability Synthesis of five frameworks … and unification. Pickett explains, “Urban ecological science is a young discipline. Because of its …
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Michael J Fargione
… Michael Fargione's responsibilities include the management of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies' … and helps deliver outdoor educational efforts geared toward the general public. Program goals include: … To provide secure sites for and support of relevant ecological research. To facilitate opportunities for …
lizzy elliott - 12/18/2020 - 09:50
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… the scientists wrote, “but rather was driven by the ecological change in North America beginning in the colonial … as farmers and pastoralists left the Northeast’s depleted lands for the rich post-glacial soil of the Midwest. The … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Soil carbon sequestration as a climate change solution
… that we should restore soil organic matter by intensive management to increase soil carbon sequestration. … could be involved, overlooking that vast areas of land are arid or unmanaged, and that large areas that are destined to … carbon dioxide. Sequestration of carbon on the lands under active agriculture management would require …
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Cary Institute receives $2 million gift to reimagine its headquarters
… reimagine the headquarters of one of the nation’s leading ecological research organizations. Staff are global experts … sawtooth roofline, and have achieved energy efficiency and sustainability goals. Recycled and repurposed materials … on these systems. Our findings lead to more effective management and policy actions and increased environmental …
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Q&A with Winslow Hansen: Wildfire in the western US
… for people and ecosystems, and how fire modeling can guide management. How do wildfires start? Wildfires start … changing ecosystems? We are already beginning to see the ecological consequences of changing fire behavior. Across … that provide guidance for such activities. On public lands abutting communities, we need to explore how proactive …
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Getting parks out of green infrastructure purgatory
… an important role in cooling cities, mediating urban heat islands. On an individual level, the psychological … exclusively focus on green infrastructure as a stormwater management strategy. This is because in 2007, the EPA … as green infrastructure? Parks are at the core of urban ecological networks. Their services extend beyond park …
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Cary Institute’s Steward Pickett Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
… Católica de Chile. Pickett’s research explores the ecological structure of urban areas and how vegetation … China’s rapidly urbanizing Yanqi Valley, and riparian woodlands and savannas in Kruger National Park, South … on these systems. Our findings lead to more effective management and policy actions and increased environmental …
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Ecology and artificial intelligence: stronger together
… at others — and that AI development is hitting walls that ecological principles could help it to overcome. “The … infectious disease? The problem is that, like most complex ecological systems, predicting disease transmission depends … one pathway for new lines of thinking,” said Varshney. Toward co-evolution While ecology and artificial …
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