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What’s killing giant tropical trees? With $1.7M in awards, a Cary-led team aims to find out
… die. Unfortunately, tropical trees are dying at increasing rates, and giant trees are likely at risk, too — which … mapping the canopy’s 3D structure and photosynthetic activity in order to spot when a giant tree is ailing. An … drought, and disease — factors that are all changing along with the global climate. To differentiate between the …
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Soil carbon sequestration as a climate change solution
… bogus. We can strive to make agriculture a carbon-neutral activity, but not a net sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide … that soil carbon sequestration is slow stems from its nitrogen and phosphorus contents, which are also lost … the lands under active agriculture management would require rates exceeding 1000 gC/m2/yr to balance fossil fuel …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… While the virus’s effects were readily apparent in urban areas, where birds were found dead along streets, there was less data on what was happening in … from a long-term study (1990-2019) that estimated survival rates by capturing the birds in Jamaica, marking them with …
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… complex ecological issues in a way that maximized the usefulness of outcomes for everyone. He was an exemplary … early research transformed how scientists calculate forest nitrogen budgets. He was among the first to document that … - from particles in the air - delivered as much or more nitrogen to forests than rainfall. Gary also advanced …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… 700 years ago.” If the Lyme pathogen has been here all along, why was the disease absent—or at least not … edge of the island, where a narrow channel of shallow water separates it from New Jersey. Deer, VanAcker tells me, can … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Beech Bark Disease
… populations, including lowland and coastal plain forests along the US East Coast. It is not known whether these trees … understood, but it may be affected by the level of nitrogen in the tree 1 . Like many plant-eating insects, … Scotia in 2012. It is killing beech trees in forested and urban areas of that province, causing up to 70% mortality of …
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Squirrels could make monkeypox a forever problem
… anteaters, rabbits, and a hefty handful of primates, along with other un-mousy mammals. In several of these … routine hunts for bushmeat, for instance, or in fractured landscapes where animals forage for food in and around … are also in danger from humans,” he told me. Human activity, after all, brought monkeypox to the U.S. in 2003, …
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How it all started
How it all started Microbial activity in rocks may characterize life on other planets and … life evolve on Earth about 3500 million years ago? The land surface is unlikely, as it would have been subject to a … on hydrogen generated by volcanic activity, especially along the mid-ocean ridges that are found in all the …
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With global challenges in mind, keeping a decades-long success story at the forefront
… at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, has published, along with colleagues, an analysis and summary in … the acidity, that is, the emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides to the atmosphere through the burning of … says. Acid rain is not just a problem for whatever it lands on immediately and it is not an issue that happened …
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Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19
… “These pathogens cause zoonoses with high case fatality rates in humans, and some of these zoonoses do not have … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders … of humans in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific and Indian Ocean Islands still eat bats. Thousands of inhabitants of the …
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