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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… virus disease, which can cause encephalitis and has a case fatality rate of around 10 percent. “For us,” he … during the first 150 years and more of this country’s history. But that began to change after the completion of … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Dr. David L. Strayer
… whose current work focuses on measuring the long-term effects of zebra mussels on the Hudson River ecosystem, and … 30 years, providing one of the longest and most detailed case studies in invasion ecology. Strayer also works on … of species and ecosystems. In addition to his scientific publications, Strayer has written several dozen essays for …
ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:40
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Beech Bark Disease
… and eventually girdle the tree, disrupting its internal nutrient transport system and causing it to deteriorate … tree species in the forest. Such shifts have important effects on soil development and nutrient cycling 2 . … forests: the importance of nitrogen dynamics and forest history for disease severity. Canadian Journal of Forest …
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Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19
… Studies. “These pathogens cause zoonoses with high case fatality rates in humans, and some of these zoonoses do … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders … with bats The experts also underscored the long history of co-association of bats and humans. “We have …
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Is the coronavirus pandemic related to meat production?
… 2019 book, The Meat Question: Animals, Humans, and the Deep History of Food. Professor Andrew Cunningham, deputy … many other parts of the world. So, we’re seeing species mixing under unnatural conditions that would not normally … change. They’re not completely separable. In the case of biodiversity loss, you tend to lose certain species. …
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Cary Institute to offer immersive, paid research experience for teachers
… to wildfire, aquatic ecosystems, disease ecology, forests, nutrient cycling, and more. Depending on which project the … to create and run simulations of future forest and fire dynamics, conduct field surveys of tick density and … that have known endpoints. Rarely is this the case in science, and by bringing more research into the …
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Mohonk Lake is getting warmer and more stagnant with climate change
… due to climate change, and year to year variability in lake mixing is associated with global climate trends. Here, … different temperatures contain different concentrations of nutrients and oxygen; these conditions give rise to distinct … lake habitable for a variety of organisms. Understanding effects of stratification on aquatic animals and water …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… be having on wild bird populations. While the virus’s effects were readily apparent in urban areas, where birds … same advisor as LaDeau, Peter Marra — was studying the effects of drought on the American redstart, and realized … model to isolate the signal of trend — in this case, are American redstarts at that breeding site, or in …
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Dr. Evan Gora
… death. Plants play crucial roles in global biodiversity and nutrient cycling. However, plant mortality rates are … landscape and beyond. Much of this research focuses on the effects of a rarely studied phenomenon – lightning – and … environmental conditions, biogeochemistry, and decomposer community assembly influence decomposition. This work has …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:10
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Dr. Winslow D. Hansen
… as a Visiting Scientist at the American Museum of Natural History in the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. … foci: the socioecological repercussions for changing fire regimes in the Sonoran Desert and anthropogenic impacts on … of the SORTIE-ND forest model, forecasting climate change effects on forests of the eastern US, modeling light …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15