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  1. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … it flows into Long Island Sound, with estuary areas and lakes and rivers. And it is wooded, second-generation wooded … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the … intact, getting deer, tick, and rodent populations under control, scaling back the WUI lifestyle that puts so many …

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  2. Football-sized invasive mussels nearly escaped detection. What else are we missing?

    … a rapid response in the bureaucratic world, but not in the biological world, where nine years can easily allow a … to reproduce and spread beyond the point of feasible control. It is a triumph of good luck rather than good … of millions of dollars to keep this fish out of the Great Lakes. How is it possible that someone in New Jersey was …

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  3. Road salt pollution in many US lakes could stabilize at or below EPA thresholds

    Road salt pollution in many US lakes could stabilize at or below EPA thresholds Lakes have been growing increasingly salty due to road … But in the meantime our results suggest that efforts to control salt application can make a big difference, and may …

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

    … in particular how trees, soils, and microbes interact to control nitrogen, and how this regulates forest growth, …

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  5. A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate change

    … And the cases that are reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, are most likely the … next. Most Powassan cases have been diagnosed in the Great Lakes region and the Northeast, but cases have also cropped …

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  6. Beech Bark Disease

    … systemic or surface-applied insecticides can be used to control the beech scale insect. This is most useful in the … the tree but the fungi have not yet established. No biological control organisms (i.e., predators or parasites of the beech …

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  7. Machine learning IDs mammal species with the potential to spread SARS-CoV-2

    … increases the risk of new variants and threatens efforts to control COVID-19. A new study, published today in … a machine learning model that combined data on the biological traits of 5,400 mammal species with available … other ecological and life history traits. By comparing biological traits of species known to have the ACE2 receptor …

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  8. Cary Institute’s Steward Pickett Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

    … the Board of Directors for the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Board of Directors for the Defenders of Wildlife, and the Biological Sciences Advisory Committee for the National … And Jon Cole was elected in 2014 for his studies of lakes and rivers. For the full list of newly elected …

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

    … of the virus back to people, it could undermine efforts to control the pandemic through vaccination, Dr. Han says. Animal Suspects According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a small number of pet dogs and cats … says Dr. Scott L. Nuismer, a professor in the department of biological sciences at the University of Idaho. “There …

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  10. Ask the scientists: GLEON

    Lakes An international … and managers is working together to understand and manage lakes around the world. The Global Lake Ecological … of Freshwater Ecosystem Science Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech GLEON member since …

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