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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… was experiencing eye problems, perhaps due to the lingering effects of Lyme. To help me understand how the town of … blossomed. “What exacerbates the risk is the fragmentation and degradation of that forest,” Ostfeld … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Helium balloons impose a toll on our air, land, and sea
… are readily transported by air and water currents. The effects of microplastics on aquatic life are not well understood, and investigation is complicated by the great diversity of particle composition, size and time in the … messages (perhaps a native pollinator garden) or host a tree planting. If you do buy or encounter helium …
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Q&A with Winslow Hansen: Wildfire in the western US
… part of many ecosystems and promotes plant and wildlife diversity. By clearing underbrush, fire allows light to … species rely on fire during key life stages. For example, tree species like lodgepole pine produce cones sealed by … Canada, completely destroyed by wildfire. Other effects include health consequences of inhaling smoke, which …
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In Panama, nitrogen-fixing trees unlock phosphorus and other scarce nutrients
… fertilize other plants throughout the forest, with broad effects on nutrient cycling in the forest community.” … Epihov of the University of Sheffield points out, “Tree diversity has long been recognized as vital for successful …
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Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?
… verges that contain plants. Rather than being piled into tree pits or onto grass, ice and snow that had been exposed … growing awareness of the harmful environmental and health effects of sodium chloride salts, their “sheer …
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Peter Groffman elected president of the Ecological Society of America
… progress.” Groffman’s research focuses on climate effects on ecosystem biogeochemical processes related to … on issues such as open access, participatory science, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. In a lecture on …
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Dr. Evan Gora
… landscape and beyond. Much of this research focuses on the effects of a rarely studied phenomenon – lightning – and the drivers of mortality for the largest and oldest trees in forest ecosystems. This research is key to … research describing the vertical dimension of microbial diversity and function that extends from the forest floor to …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:10
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What’s killing giant tropical trees? With $1.7M in awards, a Cary-led team aims to find out
… aims to find out The largest trees in tropical forests store a stunning amount of carbon. A new tree forensics project seeks to find out why they die, if … hundreds of years of carbon and all the connections and diversity built around it.” A giant …
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Dr. Winslow D. Hansen
… that cause climate warming, support much of the planet’s biodiversity, and provide essential services such as fuel, … of the SORTIE-ND forest model, forecasting climate change effects on forests of the eastern US, modeling light … Sara’s research focuses on how mechanisms of individual tree survival scale to community-level forest change, …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15
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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 … are burning have experienced fire before, and are home to tree species that are fire adapted. What is changing is the … a compressed timescale, and it will have implications for biodiversity, carbon storage, and even water availability. …
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