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New study identifies the best areas for rewilding European bison
… Modeling , … humans across Eurasia, and bison population and dispersal dynamics. Historical records, fossil evidence, and ancient … humans, and land use change affected bison population and distribution across Europe. Toggling off different variables …
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Cary Institute to offer immersive, paid research experience for teachers
… to create and run simulations of future forest and fire dynamics, conduct field surveys of tick density and distribution, explore soil food webs, and identify tree species, among other skill-building activities. …
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Dr. Arielle Biro
… in the Forest Futures Lab focuses on using simulation modeling to understand how top-down and bottom-up ecosystem drivers, ranging from climate, fire, species composition, and soil nutrients, affect the future … soil microbes, fire, and nitrogen fixation affect savanna tree growth and ecosystem nutrient pools. Dr. …
ltumblety - 12/06/2023 - 08:49
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Dr. July Pilowsky
… and viral spillover. They are applying process-explicit modeling techniques to better understand mechanisms that … in wild mammal populations, as well as spillover across species and into humans. They will use these results to … Pilowsky developed software for simulating species range dynamics over paleo timescales in a process-explicit manner. …
ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:35
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… of passenger pigeons that once competed with rodents for tree nuts and possibly suppressed mouse and chipmunk … New York, he and his team have uncovered some of the key dynamics in the Lyme disease system. Through long-term … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Beech Bark Disease
… cause bark lesions that grow and eventually girdle the tree, disrupting its internal nutrient transport system and … G. M. Lovett, M. A. Arthur, and K. C. Weathers. 2003. The distribution and severity of beech bark disease in the … in northern hardwood forests: the importance of nitrogen dynamics and forest history for disease severity. Canadian …
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Cary to co-lead $4.8M study on how environmental conditions shape viral outbreaks in wild rodents
… contact with people.” The team will explore these dynamics in wild rodents and the viruses they carry in both … diseases than any other mammalian order. Many rodent species live in close proximity to people and are highly … Royal Veterinary College: “Combined with mathematical modeling, the metaviromics data get us closer to both …
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Dr. Winslow D. Hansen
… management, and feedbacks influence forest and fire dynamics in the western United States. Prior to joining … climate change effects on forests of the eastern US, modeling light availability in agroforestry applications, … Sara’s research focuses on how mechanisms of individual tree survival scale to community-level forest change, …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15
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In the Tropics, woody vines make lightning more deadly for forests
… Studies, explains, “ Lightning is a major cause of tree death and forest disturbance , yet it has been … feedback loop could have major implications for the dynamics of liana-tree competition and forest carbon … tree survival. More work is needed to identify the tree species that will be most impacted, those that will be …
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Dr. David L. Strayer
… Ecologist Expertise Hudson River, invasive species, streams strayerd@caryinstitute.org Dave … wrote Freshwater Mussel Ecology: A Multifactor Approach to Distribution and Abundance. Zebra mussels and pearly … of species and ecosystems. In addition to his scientific publications, Strayer has written several dozen essays for …
ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:40