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To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform
To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform … social injustices and inequality? A new analysis in Landscape and Urban Planning concludes that this will … of the Urban Systems Lab. More details and other project publications can be found at www.giequity.org . …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… as well. And they have found that the presence in the landscape of a diverse community of midsize predators, … and suppression, there is a concept called the wildland-urban interface, or WUI. It is the transition zone where … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Team Cary: Elsa Anderson
… nature. I knew from that point that I wanted to focus on urban systems, blending social and ecological perspectives. … Soviet side of the wall. Those forests are still on the landscape, providing ecosystem services for people and … Going into my PhD, I was really interested in understanding biodiversity patterns in vacant lots. There's all this green …
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Getting parks out of green infrastructure purgatory
… Parks play an important role in cooling cities, mediating urban heat islands. On an individual level, the … Parks provide habitat for wildlife and support urban biodiversity. They also facilitate bird migration by … is fairly flexible and can include any feature of the landscape that supports natural systems or uses nature as a …
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Destroyed habitat creates the perfect conditions for coronavirus to emerge
… why deadly diseases new to humans were emerging from biodiversity “hot spots” like tropical rainforests and … says, is that diseases are likely to spring up in both urban and natural environments. “We have created densely … is being put under more stress, he says. “Major landscape changes are causing animals to lose habitats, …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… While the virus’s effects were readily apparent in urban areas, where birds were found dead along streets, … to mosquito composition, abundance, and distribution in urban areas. Since then, her work with Baltimore … numbers and the diseases they carry across the urban landscape, paving the way for more effective mosquito …
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Dr. Evan Gora
… of plant death. Plants play crucial roles in global biodiversity and nutrient cycling. However, plant mortality … and satellite sensors to scale these findings to the landscape and beyond. Much of this research focuses on the …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:10
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Dr. Winslow D. Hansen
… forest ecology, social-ecological resilience, natural disturbance 845 677-7600 … that cause climate warming, support much of the planet’s biodiversity, and provide essential services such as fuel, … Before that, she was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Landscape Conservation Initiative at Northern Arizona …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15
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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
… add to this risk, and can quickly spread fire across the landscape. What role has human behavior played in the … called the “10am policy” sought to erase fire from the landscape. The 10am policy decreed that newly ignited … a compressed timescale, and it will have implications for biodiversity, carbon storage, and even water availability. …
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Victoria Kelly
… radiation, phenology, and the behavior of water in the landscape. Data from the program have been used to … cycle events (phenology), and monitoring of water at the landscape scale. Recent publications include Road Salt: The Problem, The Solution, …
ltumblety - 08/01/2023 - 09:43