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  1. Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?

    … China – prevent ice forming on the road by lowering the freezing point of water. Pure water becomes ice at 0C, but … salts increase the salt concentration of water sources and soil. This affects the growth of roadside plants, and can … growing awareness of the harmful environmental and health effects of sodium chloride salts, their “sheer …

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  2. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … the Northeast’s depleted lands for the rich post-glacial soil of the Midwest. The forests came back in a big way. By … 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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  3. Victoria Kelly

    … been used to understand the dynamics of road salt and the effects of climate change on precipitation chemistry. … and monitoring of water at the landscape scale. Recent publications include Road Salt: The Problem, The Solution, and How to Get There and The State of the …

    ltumblety - 08/01/2023 - 09:43

  4. Mohonk Lake is getting warmer and more stagnant with climate change

    … lake habitable for a variety of organisms. Understanding effects of stratification on aquatic animals and water … into warmer waters near the surface is not a long-term solution and could lead to die-offs. Another growing … are also seeing that many lakes in the Northeast aren’t freezing at all. This could impact whether lakes will …

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  5. Nitrogen-fixing trees help tropical forests grow faster and store more carbon

    … of tree species growing in a tropical forest following a disturbance, such as clearcutting, can affect the forest's … Sarah Batterman. Nitrogen-fixing plants partner with soil microbes to turn atmospheric nitrogen gas into a form … 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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  6. Dr. Jazlynn Hall

    … are to prove an effective component in natural climate solutions, it is critical to develop rigorous baselines of … carbon under various development, climate change, and disturbance scenarios to determine potential carbon … in ecology, hydrology, and geography to identify the effects of forest disturbance from extreme events on carbon

    ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:34

  7. Peter Groffman elected president of the Ecological Society of America

    … progress.” Groffman’s research focuses on climate effects on ecosystem biogeochemical processes related to carbon and nitrogen cycles. In addition to his role at Cary, he is a … cycles, from urban to forest ecosystems, from soil to water, from national environmental policy to media, …

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  8. In the Tropics, woody vines make lightning more deadly for forests

    … composition of tropical forests and their ability to store carbon. So reports a new paper in the journal New … “ Lightning is a major cause of tree death and forest disturbance , yet it has been understudied as an agent of … notes. “When lianas are in the canopy, they amplify the effects of lightning strikes, resulting in more severe …

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  9. Dr. Winslow D. Hansen

    … forest ecology, social-ecological resilience, natural disturbance 845 677-7600 … of the SORTIE-ND forest model, forecasting climate change effects on forests of the eastern US, modeling light … the western United States and seeks to identify management solutions for maximizing ecosystem services in current and …

    ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15

  10. Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist

    … We should expect that the direct and indirect effects of fire will be an increasingly prevalent part of … timescale, and it will have implications for biodiversity, carbon storage, and even water availability. Shrublands … through much of North America. Suppression is not a solution. Smaller, low-intensity burns, where ecologically …

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