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Dr. Jazlynn Hall
… from DYNAFFOREST, a state of the art forest and fire model, against those from forest inventory data to test the effectiveness of the simulated baseline. Once …
ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:34
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New study identifies the best areas for rewilding European bison
… built a detailed simulation that combined paleoclimate data, vegetation and habitat information, the population … fossil evidence, and ancient DNA were used to independently test the model’s accuracy. Researchers ran 55,000 different …
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Dr. Ian McGregor
… Using a mix of optical and synthetic aperture radar data, his research focused on three main areas: assessing … improving detections by incorporating deforestation drivers, and integrating adaptive capacity to have a continuously improving model. Prior to his PhD, Dr. McGregor worked as a …
ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:41
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Cary to co-lead $4.8M study on how environmental conditions shape viral outbreaks in wild rodents
… risk to humans. “This study will be an important test of the use of metaviromics for spotting the potential … measurements, and by human movement and land use activity data. “These kinds of human-animal contact data are … Royal Veterinary College: “Combined with mathematical modeling, the metaviromics data get us closer to both …
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Ecology and artificial intelligence: stronger together
… artificial intelligence to search for patterns in large data sets and to make more accurate predictions, such as … variables interact. "Compared to other statistical models, AI can incorporate greater amounts of data and a … artificial intelligence could generate unique hypotheses to test and open up whole new lines of ecological research, …
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Road salt pollution in many US lakes could stabilize at or below EPA thresholds
… or would they stabilize? With colleagues, he developed a model to explore controls on road salt concentration in … thresholds for chloride were developed with limited data, and there is growing evidence that negative impacts … best management practices and new technologies . As a test of the model’s accuracy, predictions were compared to …
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Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?
Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost? Salting roads can … the salt can wash into the surrounding soil, as well as lakes and streams, possibly contaminating reservoirs and … on roads. In the US, Kelly said that while national-level data is available, there are gaps in data at the local …
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New study identifies bird species that could spread ticks and Lyme disease
… burgdorferi ) to feeding ticks. The team developed a model that identified birds known to spread Lyme disease … to assess bird species traits, paired with Lyme infection data from ticks found on birds, to predict bird species that … found on 183 bird species; of these, 91 carried ticks that tested positive for Borrelia burgdorferi . These bird …
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Catching the next pandemic early: the coronavirus is one example
… to predict and hopefully prevent future outbreaks. When the model successfully predicts if an animal is a disease … and hospitals are looking to them for input. Using data related to global infectious diseases, these elaborate … they’re getting sick with, and suddenly the prediction test seems much more achievable.” It’s easy to see …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… breeding range southward The story behind a model that helped support this counterintuitive discovery. … the researchers pulled together several different data sets to make this surprising discovery. Among them was a model that Cary Institute disease ecologist Shannon LaDeau …
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