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Cary to co-lead $4.8M study on how environmental conditions shape viral outbreaks in wild rodents
… monitor how changing seasons, land use, and human behavior influence viral outbreaks in wild rodent populations, to … overcomes this challenge by combining traditional disease ecology methods with the recently proven tool of … are most likely to jump from animals to humans when animal hosts have high viral loads and frequent contact with …
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Cary Institute partners on $3M study on COVID-19 variants that could emerge from wildlife
… Project combines artificial intelligence, virology, and ecology to anticipate future SARS-CoV-2 strains with the … paradigm for how society monitors and manages SARS-CoV-2 transmission in animals, said Kramer. The project is … in Step 1, and therefore could serve as potential hosts. Scientists know that SARS-CoV-2 enters mammalian …
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New study identifies bird species that could spread ticks and Lyme disease
… to people. A new study published in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography used machine learning to identify … studied the ecological and evolutionary drivers that influence which bird species are most likely to host and … to know which traits make certain animals good pathogen hosts. Here, we used machine learning to assess bird species …
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… and a PhD from Dartmouth College in Biology and Plant Ecology (1981). Before being hired at Cary Institute, he was … me so sad — for his family, friends, and discipline. His influence is deep & has shaped thought about ecosystems, & ecology more generally, for many of us. What a loss. …
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Animal reservoirs—where the next SARS-CoV-2 variant could arise
… pandemic, Holmes and others told JAMA. Interspecies transmission can produce new animal reservoirs where the … species barriers, it also adapts to a range of different hosts, stockpiling mutations that can change its behavior, … different hosts could represent fundamental shifts in the ecology and evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and could result in …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… The forests, in other words, are missing many ecological influences that may have played a role in regulating the … rodents like chipmunks, are what scientists call reservoir hosts. They are the long-term hosts of the Lyme pathogen, … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Machine learning IDs mammal species with the potential to spread SARS-CoV-2
… Back and forth transmission of SARS-CoV-2 between people and other mammals … “Secondary spillover allows SARS-CoV-2 established in new hosts to transmit potentially more infectious strains to … and environmental literacy. Staff are global experts in the ecology of: cities, disease, forests, and freshwater. …
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Ecology and artificial intelligence: stronger together
Ecology and artificial intelligence: stronger together … like most complex ecological systems, predicting disease transmission depends on many variables, not just one, … in the convergent evolution of ecology and AI has the potential to yield transformative perspectives and solutions …
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The more we lose biodiversity, the worse will be the spread of infectious diseases
… diversity in a biodiversity-rich region provides a range of hosts, many incompetent, for the pathogen. The presence of a … Chennai who says that “biodiversity has a great influence on magnitude and impact of epidemics.” … and conservation at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology & the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore. “One cannot …
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Dr. Winslow D. Hansen
… Hansen Forest Ecologist Expertise forest ecology, social-ecological resilience, natural … 845 677-7600 x138hansenw@caryinstitute.org Forests influence climate and sustain life globally. Trees sequester … pathways by which conventional methods underestimate the potential for forest loss with climate change, and 2) …
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