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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… blossomed. “What exacerbates the risk is the fragmentation and degradation of that forest,” Ostfeld … complex of green space that extends to the western edge of the island, where a narrow channel of shallow water … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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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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Nitrogen-fixing trees help tropical forests grow faster and store more carbon
… gas into a form of nitrogen that is available to fuel plant growth. Through these interactions, nitrogen fixers are able to self-fertilize. This adaptation gives them an edge in recently cleared, early succession tropical soils … 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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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… other communities, among them the Hubbard Brook Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) community, the Catskill … (1975) and a PhD from Dartmouth College in Biology and Plant Ecology (1981). Before being hired at Cary Institute, … “Gary had a gracious approach to science and professional interactions—no ego involved. He wanted to see the best …
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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 … amount that enters the environment via treated wastewater plant effluent. Although the Gwynns Falls watershed does … Emma Rosi, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Acknowledgements This work was funded by the National …
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In Panama, nitrogen-fixing trees unlock phosphorus and other scarce nutrients
… is very limited in tropical forest soils and important to plant growth.” In this study, the team compared the … fertilize other plants throughout the forest, with broad effects on nutrient cycling in the forest community.” … for Climate Change Mitigation, University of Sheffield Acknowledgements Funding for this research was made …
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Cary Institute partners on $3M study on COVID-19 variants that could emerge from wildlife
… The award comes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service through the Ecology and … between wildlife and humans through the latest cutting-edge AI technologies, including generative AI and foundation …
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Dr. Winslow D. Hansen
… the Sonoran Desert and anthropogenic impacts on mutualist interactions (seed dispersal and pollination). She received her M.Sc. in plant ecology and Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary … of the SORTIE-ND forest model, forecasting climate change effects on forests of the eastern US, modeling light …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15
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Team Cary: Chelsey Nieman
… in environmental science and biology, with a dual focus in plant ecology and economics. I had a teacher who was very … studying walleye and emerald shiner. My work focused on the effects reduced water clarity, due to sediments and algae, … and cat cafe is up there on my list. I’m passionate about animal rescue and taking care of cats and dogs. I volunteer …
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Beech Bark Disease
… and may be dispersed by hitching a ride on birds or other animals. The insects can also be spread by people moving … 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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