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Dr. Danielle Hare
… research examined how changing stream temperature affects organic carbon cycling and stream ecosystems, and methods to use … streams. Her work was part of the NSF-funded collaboration: Carbon Response to Experimental Warming in Streams (CREWS) …
ltumblety - 02/05/2024 - 09:36
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Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
… could impair soils’ ability to cycle nutrients and trap carbon Research assistant Peter Hoch collects prairie … Rising temperatures alone increased soil respiration and dissolved organic carbon. Increases in these labile carbon pools can …
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Dr. Evan Gora
… takes a bottom-up approach to understand how plant death influences ecosystem processes. He studies local patterns … the composition of our forests and their capacity to store carbon. After plants die, they decompose with major implications for the global carbon budget. Evan explores how environmental conditions, …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:10
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Dr. Jane M. Lucas
… abundant microorganisms help fertilize plants and recycle organic debris, with important implications for agriculture … how livestock antibiotics affect soil microbes, soil carbon storage, nitrogen cycling, and the rise of antibiotic …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:12
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… to control nitrogen, and how this regulates forest growth, carbon sequestration, and nitrogen pollution to streams. …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… The forests, in other words, are missing many ecological influences that may have played a role in regulating the … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Soil carbon sequestration as a climate change solution
Soil carbon sequestration as a climate change solution … recognized (and I thoroughly agree) that soils with lots of organic matter are good for plant growth, retention of water … plant cover crops, and apply manure to maintain soil organic matter at stable levels. Avoiding cultivation also …
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Ocean acidification
Ocean acidification The rising carbon dioxide content of Earth’s atmosphere will take an … can have a pH as low as 3.0. In the atmosphere, when carbon dioxide dissolves in water, it forms carbonic acid, … of the oceans caused by the increasing carbon dioxide dissolved in them. The pH of seawater in the central North …
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In Baltimore, lower income neighborhoods have bigger mosquitoes
… of Medical Entomology , investigating how socioeconomics influences mosquito-borne disease risk in Baltimore, … accurate proxy for body size in mosquitoes, and body size influences traits that are important to disease … Adult mosquitoes were collected using traps baited with carbon dioxide and a mammal-derived attractant. Credit: …
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How it all started
… marine crust, but about 30% may escape and fuel microbial metabolism in the deep sea and its sediments. Similar to … plants that we see at the Earth’s surface, which generate organic matter by photosynthesis, these microbes use … in reactions known as chemosynthesis to generate organic carbon in complete darkness. The rate of metabolism is slow …
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