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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… rainfall. Gary also advanced scientific understanding of nutrient cycling in forests, in particular how trees, soils, … interact to control nitrogen, and how this regulates forest growth, carbon sequestration, and nitrogen pollution to … into the atmosphere, it failed to take into account the different sensitivities of ecosystems and biodiversity that …
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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 … native prairie soil ready to be incubated at three different temperatures. Credit: Jane Lucas. The team … and temperature interact to disrupt soil communities and nutrient cycling . Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Volume …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… and Evolution in which scientists sequenced nearly 150 different Borrelia burgdorferi genomes, the bacteria are … 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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Dosing the coast: Baltimore County’s leaky pipes are medicating the Chesapeake Bay
… and other ecological processes – with harmful cascading effects. Lead author Megan Fork , a postdoctoral … detected at the Gwynns Falls outlet with river discharge rates recorded by a USGS monitoring station at the site. … animals exposed to sewage from leaky pipes are receiving a different mix of compounds than those exposed to wastewater …
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Antidepressant pollution alters crayfish behavior, with impacts to stream ecosystems
… streams and rivers globally, but little is known about its effects on animals and ecosystems. A new study , … the potential to disrupt stream ecosystem processes like nutrient cycling, oxygen levels, and algal growth. … would expect increased crayfish foraging to lead to higher rates of leaf litter decomposition and biofilm turnover, …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… University, the researchers pulled together several different data sets to make this surprising discovery. Among … be having on wild bird populations. While the virus’s effects were readily apparent in urban areas, where birds … from a long-term study (1990-2019) that estimated survival rates by capturing the birds in Jamaica, marking them with …
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New study identifies the best areas for rewilding European bison
… data, vegetation and habitat information, the population growth and expansion of Palaeolithic humans across Eurasia, … test the model’s accuracy. Researchers ran 55,000 different simulations to explore how climate, hunting by … years ago due to rapid warming of the climate and its effects on bison habitat. After that, the activities of a …
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In Panama, nitrogen-fixing trees unlock phosphorus and other scarce nutrients
… role in recovering tropical forests by enriching nutrient-poor soils with scarce elements such as phosphorus … fertilize other plants throughout the forest, with broad effects on nutrient cycling in the forest community.” … development, and climate change. Understanding how different tree species influence tropical forests is …
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Dr. Evan Gora
… death. Plants play crucial roles in global biodiversity and nutrient cycling. However, plant mortality rates are shifting with climate change and putting these key … landscape and beyond. Much of this research focuses on the effects of a rarely studied phenomenon – lightning – and …
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Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19
… people have the better they understand that spillover is different from just having a bat in the house. The … surprising. “Bats have a high species diversity; in addition to this, they have been sampled more intensively … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders …
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