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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist We should expect that the … causes water to be increasingly pulled from the land’s surface, which dries out trees, downed branches, brush, and … seedlings to survive and establish the next generation of canopy trees. Large swaths of forests are a fire away from …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… predator eradication, wildlife extinction—these and other factors have set the stage for the surging presence of Lyme … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the … getting deer, tick, and rodent populations under control, scaling back the WUI lifestyle that puts so many people at …
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Racist housing practices from the 1930s linked to hotter neighborhoods today
… according to research released last week by the U.S. Forest Service, the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis … Inequality database and compared them to heat and tree canopy data. The researchers looking at heat patterns used surface temperature data from NASA and the U.S. Geological …
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Measuring soil water from space
… entire globe. My collaborators include partners at Harvard Forest in Massachusetts, as well as colleagues from … water content in the top 5cm of soil everywhere on Earth's surface. Credit: NASA. When the growing season begins … two things: soil water content and condition of the forest canopy. SMAP orbits the earth from pole to pole many …
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Dr. Danielle Hare
… stream biogeochemical fluxes at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and Dr. Solomon and Dr. Stuart Jones in lake … of Massachusetts-Amherst with Dr. David Boutt using surface water-groundwater temperature methods to help inform …
ltumblety - 02/05/2024 - 09:36
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Exploring How Social and Ecological Factors Shape Fisheries
Exploring How Social and Ecological Factors Shape Fisheries Working with ecologists, … only to fisheries, but also to other shared resources like forests, pastures, groundwater, and the atmosphere. The … the world. Many models of lake fisheries assume that coarse woody structures in the water – like felled trees …
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'One Mississippi...' How lightning shapes the climate
… very close, it just goes silent first," says Gora, a forest ecologist who studies lightning in tropical … Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, in collaboration with canopy ecologist Steve Yanoviak , quantitative ecologist …
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Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?
… on a large scale. Professor Liu Yong, of the College of Forestry at Beijing Forestry University, explained that the trees died of … with high blood pressure, while high chloride levels in surface water are toxic to certain types of fish, insects …
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BBC's The Documentary Podcast: Forest fear
BBC's The Documentary Podcast: Forest fear BBC's The … potential riches a potential threat is lurking beneath the canopy. Increasing deforestation allows what is hidden …
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Dr. Evan Gora
Dr. Evan Gora Forest Ecologist Expertise forest ecology, lightning, plant death, decomposition … and function that extends from the forest floor to the canopy. Studies of decomposition are essential to …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:10