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  1. Exposure to past temperature variability may help forests cope with climate change

    Exposure to past temperature variability may help forests cope with climate … monthly mean, minimum, and maximum temperatures, total precipitation, and mean vapor pressure deficit (a measure of … places, rising mean temperature is likely to have a greater impact on forests than increasing year to year temperature

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  2. Victoria Kelly

    … , which includes monitoring climate as well as air, precipitation and streamwater quality, solar radiation, … the effectiveness of road salt reduction practices, the impact of climate change on plant and animal life cycle … and monitoring of water at the landscape scale. Recent publications include Road Salt: The Problem, The Solution, …

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  3. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … Then humans disrupted the environment and fueled an era of tick-borne diseases. Photo by Spongetastic69 … burgdorferi. Somewhere in the woods outside his home, a black-legged tick had injected the infectious organisms into … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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  4. Studying effects of temperature and competition on larval mosquitoes

    Studying effects of temperature and competition on larval mosquitoes … and biotic factors that mosquitoes are exposed to as larvae impact their longevity and physiology as adults. Abiotic … involve living organisms – things like temperature and precipitation. Biotic factors involve living organisms and …

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  5. Lyme disease season is here. These are tips on how to avoid it.

    … like Lyme could put you at greater risk from Covid. Blacklegged tick. Photo by Monikah Schuschu May 27, 2020 … to tell your doctor about any recent hikes or outdoor activity. The sooner you get treated for tick-borne illness, …

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  6. Community Ecology of Lyme Disease (LTREB)

    … ticks inside mesh field enclosures in order to assess how temperature, humidity, and soil moisture impact tick survival and abundance. We also deploy these … and protect local populations. Publications

  7. Cary to co-lead $4.8M study on how environmental conditions shape viral outbreaks in wild rodents

    … into people. The project is co-led by Barbara Han , a disease ecologist at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies … difficult to study how changing environmental conditions impact virus transmission in the wild. With $2.9 million in … measurements, and by human movement and land use activity data.  “These kinds of human-animal contact …

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  8. A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate change

    A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate change Blacklegged ticks carrying Powassan kill one in 10 of the … to change due to greenhouse gas emissions. Warming temperatures are helping ticks shift their ranges into new …

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  9. What’s killing giant tropical trees? With $1.7M in awards, a Cary-led team aims to find out

    … mapping the canopy’s 3D structure and photosynthetic activity in order to spot when a giant tree is ailing. An … in giant tree deaths are wind, lightning, drought, and disease — factors that are all changing along with the … and weather conditions, including rainfall, humidity, temperature, light intensity, vapor pressure, wind speed, …

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  10. Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend

    … contributions have been diverse and have had a very high impact.” His early research transformed how scientists … his study plots were dying off due to pests like Beech Bark Disease, Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, and spongy moths. This …

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