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Dr. David L. Strayer
Dr. David L. Strayer Freshwater Ecologist Expertise Hudson River, … research in this area, particularly regarding the zebra mussel. This tiny bivalve arrived in North America from … 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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To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform
… on vision, process, and distribution. They found widespread failure of plans to conceptualize and operationalize equity … evaluation of projects, and less than 10% identified the causes of uneven risk distributions and vulnerability. If … of the Urban Systems Lab. More details and other project publications can be found at www.giequity.org . …
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Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges
… Dr. David L. Strayer Freshwater Ecologist … the Maumee, paddlefish moved back into the Scioto, mooneye populations grew throughout the Ohio River and its … from farm fields. In some respects, the CWA was a failure. We could draw several lessons from this story, …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… fractured by intensive human development. Ballooning deer populations, second-growth forests, suburban and exurban … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the … climate. With it has come the alpha gal syndrome, which causes some people to become allergic to red meat. …
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The Lost Snail of the Yangtze
… Dr. David L. Strayer Freshwater Ecologist … by flooding them with locks and dams (see the photograph of Mussel Shoals below). A boat being … in our southeastern rivers have rediscovered remnant populations of several species thought to be extinct (see …
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Football-sized invasive mussels nearly escaped detection. What else are we missing?
… Dr. David L. Strayer Freshwater Ecologist … story, I was left feeling that I had learned more about the failures of contemporary non-native species management than … pathogens, from chestnut blight to the fungus that causes sudden oak death, that have arrived and caused …
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Paid summer fellowships available in the Catskills
… visitation impacts on trails; climate change and fish populations; and ecological and economic impacts of invasive … natural resource managers and researchers and attracts new scientists to conduct research in the Catskills. … Monitoring 2021 Fellows: Final Presentations: Freshwater Invasives & Forest Regeneration 2021 …
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New study identifies the best areas for rewilding European bison
New study identifies the best areas for rewilding European … in captivity. Scientists have long debated the exact causes of the grazers’ near extinction, and how much … enormous conservation efforts have helped to restore wild populations, and its numbers are on the rise. However, the …
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Cary Institute partners on $3M study on COVID-19 variants that could emerge from wildlife
… and more. These species may act as reservoirs, offering new opportunities for the virus to mutate and spill back … to better understand how SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) behaves in natural ecosystems, to … susceptible to infection. Viral outbreaks in most wild populations are under-observed, with estimations of the …
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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
… will be an increasingly prevalent part of our lives. New York City, June 7, 2023 at 2pm. Photo by MTA … infection to more serious exacerbation of asthma, heart failure, and premature death. The website USAir can give … warm, the atmosphere is able to hold more water. This causes water to be increasingly pulled from the land’s …
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