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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… human development. Ballooning deer populations, second-growth forests, suburban and exurban growth, habitat … to a 2017 study in the journal Nature, Ecology, and Evolution in which scientists sequenced nearly 150 different … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Dr. Sarah Batterman
… sink. She is also turning to the past to understand how the evolution of plant symbioses with fungi and nitrogen-fixing … the forests with nitrogen, enhancing tropical rainforest growth, and, ultimately, increasing the size of the carbon …
ltumblety - 01/03/2024 - 10:11
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… interact to control nitrogen, and how this regulates forest growth, carbon sequestration, and nitrogen pollution to …
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Antidepressant pollution alters crayfish behavior, with impacts to stream ecosystems
… processes like nutrient cycling, oxygen levels, and algal growth. Coauthor Emma Rosi , a freshwater ecologist … Changes in crayfish behavior that alter their feeding habits will have cascading effects on the stream ecosystem. … eat them like trout, bass, and catfish. Changes in algal growth or turnover would alter oxygen levels and nutrient …
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Overpopulation
… than the suggestion that we should curb human population growth. It gives immediate rise to accusations of racism and … For others, it repudiates the basic tenet of Darwinian evolution that the fitness of organisms is based on the … is central, leading to perhaps two thirds of the growth in carbon dioxide emissions in recent decades. But, …
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Elizabeth Buhr
… in Trinidad & Tobago contributing to research on the evolution of Trinidadian guppies and killifish. She holds a …
ltumblety - 12/11/2023 - 09:00
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Dr. Arielle Biro
… the Cary Institute, Dr. Biro received her PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Yale University where she worked … microbes, fire, and nitrogen fixation affect savanna tree growth and ecosystem nutrient pools. Dr. Arielle …
ltumblety - 12/06/2023 - 08:49
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The Strange Forests that Drink—and Eat—Fog
… and Chiloé Island. More recently she joined a group of Chilean collaborators at northerly Fray Jorge because she … Park. Acidity in all forms of moisture was causing stunted growth and injury to forests, researchers realized. … quantities of nitrogen to Chile's coastal forests, where growth is limited by a lack of this critical nutrient. …
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Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?
… concentration of water sources and soil. This affects the growth of roadside plants, and can even lead to their … roads”. It stipulated that snowmelt agents should be kept within 1 metre of roadside verges that contain plants. …
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Arboreal dimensions of biodiversity
… suggested that this pertains to all species with arboreal habits—squirrels, birds, lizards, insects, epiphytes and … in areas with high tree species richness. Old-growth forests, with the slow build-up of multiple levels of understory and epiphytic plants over many years, support numerous …
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