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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… so many other communities, among them the Hubbard Brook Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) community, the Catskill … when it fell back to Earth.” While undertaking long-term studies on nutrient cycling in Catskill Mountain …
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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
… smoke drift from Canadian wildfires - what's changed? How long will it last? The smoke we are seeing, and in many … determine whether we experience smoke again. In the longer term, however, climate change will almost certainly continue … shift happen in a compressed timescale, and it will have implications for biodiversity, carbon storage, and even …
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In the Tropics, woody vines make lightning more deadly for forests
… play an outsized role.” Lianas are woody vines with long climbing stems that are common in the tropics. In … system was used to reveal the mechanisms underlying this variation, and whether the presence of lianas influenced the … strikes. This positive feedback loop could have major implications for the dynamics of liana-tree competition and …
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In the tropics, nitrogen-fixing trees take a hit from herbivores
… reduces nitrogen, limits forest growth. Photo by Sarah Batterman December 7, 2022 … substantial benefit of nitrogen to these forests, it has long been a mystery why nitrogen-fixing trees represent just … the fixation trait itself – which explained up to 24% of variation – suggesting the high herbivory and the trait of …
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Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
… tested (15, 20, and 30°C) represented seasonal variation plus a future warming projection. For each … in these labile carbon pools can lead to a reduction in long-term carbon storage capacity. Lucas says, “We saw …
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West Nile virus infection risk is higher in less affluent neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD
… located within 2km of each other, minimizing environmental variation. Abandoned properties in … from: the National Science Foundation, the US Army’s Long Term Health Education and Training Program, the Walter Reed …
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'One Mississippi...' How lightning shapes the climate
… you. I'm sure it's a millisecond, but it feels super, super long ... And then there's just an unbelievable boom and … understand how lightning operates in these forests, and its implications for climate change. Lightning tends to strike …
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What’s killing giant tropical trees? With $1.7M in awards, a Cary-led team aims to find out
… lives it has influenced, hosted, fed…. It takes a very long time for a tree to get to be a giant, so losing them … of death or damage. The researchers expect to be able to determine the cause of death for about 10,000 trees over the … death and how they will change with global warming has big implications for forest management and reforestation …
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What is a species?
… but these do not interfere with the definition as long as the hybrids are sterile. The traditional view of … and definitive—unlike the physical traits of color, size variation, and behavior that are used in the biological …
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Environmental justice
… As a scientist, I am worried about the term environmental justice. Scientists measure things, … as distinct from other forms of injustice that have been so long overlooked? I would hate to see environmental …
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