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Can humans be part of healthy ecosystems?
… and its first inhabitants formed a connection to their landscape unlike the exploitative approach of many later … Today, the beliefs and traditions of the Karuk Tribe of northern California still emphasise a symbiotic relationship … Steel Producer: Cathy Edwards Editor: Richard Collings Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris Studio Manager: …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… the Northeast’s depleted lands for the rich post-glacial soil of the Midwest. The forests came back in a big way. By … as well. And they have found that the presence in the landscape of a diverse community of midsize predators, … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Measuring the moisture in forest soils from space
… This water provides critical support for life on Earth. Soil moisture regulates plant growth, affecting wildlife and … Earth and atmosphere – processes that determine weather patterns. Measuring soil moisture with ground sensors … hands. Plus, soil moisture is highly variable across the landscape. For these reasons, we cannot rely on ground …
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Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?
… salts increase the salt concentration of water sources and soil. This affects the growth of roadside plants, and can … snowmelt agents with clear environmental advantages and low production costs are developed, chloride salts will continue … 10 grams per square metre. This is the basis on which northern provinces have adopted further measures to reduce …
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Measuring soil water from space
Measuring soil water from space NASA collaboration … plants take up nearly all of the water that falls on the landscape, sometimes leaving the soil bone dry. As autumn … as leaves lose their capacity to draw water. These patterns tend to operate consistently on a macro level. But …
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Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities Combined stressors … Lead author Jane Lucas measures CO2 production from prairie soil samples in Moscow, Idaho. … collected samples of prairie soil from preserved land in northern Idaho that was free of grazing livestock. …
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Agriculture without weeds and bugs
… no means is modern agriculture a “green” endeavor. Food production is responsible for about 1/3 of our greenhouse … are applied to keep the fields weed-free. The diversity of soil bacteria and fungi is sacrificed and replaced with … in a loss of diversity at higher trophic levels across the landscape. Of course, the alarming aspect of all this is …
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Why oceanic islands buck biodiversity trends
… The research is led by Camille Delavaux of ETH Zurich ; forest ecologist Evan Gora of Cary Institute of … al./Nature 2024 “Many plants rely on fungi to access soil nutrients, or on specialized pollinators to … how human introduction of plants to islands alters the patterns seen in the study. The findings also offer a …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… harder for the redstart to survive the return trip to the northernmost parts of its range. With less rain at the … we decided that we could go a step further and see if the patterns in the breeding region agreed with the data that … numbers and the diseases they carry across the urban landscape, paving the way for more effective mosquito …
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Dr. Evan Gora
Dr. Evan Gora Forest Ecologist Expertise forest ecology, … death influences ecosystem processes. He studies local patterns and processes of plant death, and then uses “big … and satellite sensors to scale these findings to the landscape and beyond. Much of this research focuses on the …
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