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Victoria Kelly
… been used to understand the dynamics of road salt and the effects of climate change on precipitation chemistry. … practices, the impact of climate change on plant and animal life cycle events (phenology), and monitoring of water at the landscape scale. Recent publications include Road Salt: The Problem, The Solution, …
ltumblety - 08/01/2023 - 09:43
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… because the US government’s Plum Island biowarfare and animal research lab was nearby in Long Island Sound, they … was experiencing eye problems, perhaps due to the lingering effects of Lyme. To help me understand how the town of … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
… of Ecosystem Studies, investigated the interactive effects of rising temperatures and a common livestock … biologically active when it enters the environment through animal waste. Soil microcosms … to process carbon, less is converted into a stable organic form, which would become trapped in the soil. Instead, more …
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Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?
… agents can also harm the health of humans and other animals. As snow and ice contaminated with chloride salt … growing awareness of the harmful environmental and health effects of sodium chloride salts, their “sheer … salt water, that is, pure sodium chloride in liquid form. After the introduction of the standard, 14 types of …
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Nitrogen-fixing trees help tropical forests grow faster and store more carbon
… with soil microbes to turn atmospheric nitrogen gas into a form of nitrogen that is available to fuel plant growth. … seeds are often dispersed by wildlife. Having animal dispersed seeds is a disadvantage in the early stages … trees in a tropical forest, we need to isolate their effects. We can't do that in a real forest because adding or …
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Can humans be part of healthy ecosystems?
… CrowdScience listener Teri has witnessed the harmful effects of development on natural habitats near her home, … lived here for over 10,000 years and its first inhabitants formed a connection to their landscape unlike the … a symbiotic relationship with nature, seeing plants and animals as their relations. Over the past couple of …
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Impaired wild mice survive and thrive as well as unimpaired counterparts
… than 27,244 animals – and found that mice with missing or deformed limbs, tails, or eyes persisted at a rate similar … took detailed notes about the physical features of each animal. Lead author Francesca Rubino of the UC Davis … Francesca I., Oggenfuss Kelly and Ostfeld Richard S. 2021. Effects of physical impairments on fitness correlates of the …
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Dosing the coast: Baltimore County’s leaky pipes are medicating the Chesapeake Bay
… Mixtures of drugs in lakes, rivers, and streams can disrupt animal biology and behavior, algal growth, and other ecological processes – with harmful cascading effects. Lead author Megan Fork , a postdoctoral … the environment via leaking infrastructure. This sort of information is critical to assessing organisms’ exposure …
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In Panama, nitrogen-fixing trees unlock phosphorus and other scarce nutrients
… needed to release phosphorus and molybdenum in bioavailable forms that plants can use. Nitrogen … fertilize other plants throughout the forest, with broad effects on nutrient cycling in the forest community.” … Investigators Dimitar Z. Epihov – Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield; …
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Transforming urban systems: Toward sustainability
… Urban areas are on the rise and changing rapidly in form and function, with spillover effects on virtually all areas of the Earth. The UN … and lead author Weiqi Zhou of the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in …
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