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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… budgets. He was among the first to document that dry atmospheric deposition - from particles in the air - … rainfall. Gary also advanced scientific understanding of nutrient cycling in forests, in particular how trees, soils, … his expertise on the interplay between ecosystems and the atmospheric deposition of pollutants. Gary was an author or …
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Nitrogen-fixing trees help tropical forests grow faster and store more carbon
… trees absorb carbon emissions and store them as woody biomass. As a result, reforestation of land once cleared for … Nitrogen-fixing plants partner with soil microbes to turn atmospheric nitrogen gas into a form of nitrogen that is … relatively rare in newly recovering forests. Their large, nutrient-packed seeds are often dispersed by wildlife. …
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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
… drier parts of North America, many of the forests that are burning have experienced fire before, and are home to tree … Smoke produced from these fires is carried south by atmospheric circulation patterns. The unhealthy air … amounts of fuel and the densification of live trees in many forested landscapes. This essentially means that trees are …
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In the tropics, nitrogen-fixing trees take a hit from herbivores
… partnering with soil microbes, nitrogen-fixing trees turn atmospheric nitrogen gas into a form of nitrogen that is … traits were also collected across species, and included: nutrient concentrations, physical defenses, leaf toughness, …
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Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges
… streams so acid that no fish could survive; and excessive nutrient loads fueled runaway algal growth in Lake Erie. … pollution. Lake Erie had become overly green as a result of nutrient pollution from detergents, fertilizer and sewage, … follow catastrophe. According to John Hartig’s book “Burning Rivers,” the Cuyahoga River burned in 1868, 1883, …
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Soil carbon sequestration as a climate change solution
… a carbon-neutral activity, but not a net sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide from other sources. One reason … also lost alongside soil organic carbon. To restore these nutrient stocks requires inputs of N and P from outside … in the coming years are likely to be sources, not sinks, of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Sequestration of carbon on the …
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In Panama, nitrogen-fixing trees unlock phosphorus and other scarce nutrients
… role in recovering tropical forests by enriching nutrient-poor soils with scarce elements such as phosphorus … that nitrogen-fixing trees work with soil microbes to make atmospheric nitrogen available to plants. Our study found … bags of rocks (crushed dunite) under trees, and measured nutrient weathering from the rocks over eight months. Dunite …
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Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19
… in the fight against COVID-19 Studying what drives spillovers is important. April 23, 2020 … countermeasures (e.g., Nipah virus). So, understanding what drives the spillover of bat-borne viruses is, therefore, an … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders …
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With global challenges in mind, keeping a decades-long success story at the forefront
… along with colleagues, an analysis and summary in Atmospheric Environment of what became a national monitoring … June 1963, followed by the establishment of the Multi-state Atmospheric Power Production Pollution Study (MAP3S) Network … dioxide and nitrogen oxides to the atmosphere through the burning of coal and oil in the production of electrical …
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Woody biomass fuels
Woody biomass fuels We have used fossil fuels with … Biomass I suppose it … carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and people were burning trees long before we saw any rise in the …
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