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Why oceanic islands buck biodiversity trends
Why oceanic islands buck biodiversity trends Plant diversity is generally much higher near the equator … A new paper reveals that plants’ relationships with other species help to explain why. February 28, 2024 … On continents and mainlands, species richness tends to be high near the equator and low near the …
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Urban greening success could be as simple as scattering seeds
… by Cary postdoctoral associate Elsa Anderson found that plant biodiversity can be increased with broadcast seeding. … Ambio . Ify Ndwuku measures target species height (here, a Western sunflower) in an … lot of action out there.” Next, the team will explore effects of greening method on soil ecosystem services. …
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Low-income Baltimore blocks host bigger, more dangerous mosquitoes
… Baltimore residential neighborhoods over three years. This species, introduced to the U.S. in 1987, is now the most … grow larger. Some cities' well-intentioned efforts to plant trees in low-income blocks may worsen the problem: … between 2005 and 2010, possibly because of the lingering effects from the 2008 housing crisis. The number has since …
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Nitrogen-fixing trees help tropical forests grow faster and store more carbon
… the atmosphere. The study modeled how the mix of tree species growing in a tropical forest following a … gas into a form of nitrogen that is available to fuel plant growth. Through these interactions, nitrogen fixers … 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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Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
… bell tolls; it tolls for thee The Endangered Species Act must protect all species, not just those where … supporting our persistence each minute of each day. Thank a plant somewhere for every breath of oxygen you take. The collective effects of life on Earth result from its diversity—not …
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Dr. David L. Strayer
… Ecologist Expertise Hudson River, invasive species, streams strayerd@caryinstitute.org Dave … whose current work focuses on measuring the long-term effects of zebra mussels on the Hudson River ecosystem, and … of species and ecosystems. In addition to his scientific publications, Strayer has written several dozen essays for …
ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:40
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Victoria Kelly
… been used to understand the dynamics of road salt and the effects of climate change on precipitation chemistry. … salt reduction 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
… showed that the disease wasn’t caused by a virus but by a species of spirochete bacterium, a type that shares a … 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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Beech Bark Disease
… insect (the beech scale, Cryptococcus fagisuga ) and two species of bark-cankering fungi ( Neonectria faginata and … tree species in the forest. Such shifts have important effects on soil development and nutrient cycling 2 . … by the level of nitrogen in the tree 1 . Like many plant-eating insects, the beech scale’s population growth …
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Q&A with Winslow Hansen: Wildfire in the western US
… fire regimes across different regions. And, since some plant species burn hotter and easier than others, the type of … Canada, completely destroyed by wildfire. Other effects include health consequences of inhaling smoke, which …
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