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What’s killing giant tropical trees? With $1.7M in awards, a Cary-led team aims to find out
… tropical forests store a stunning amount of carbon. A new tree forensics project seeks to find out why they die, if … of forest at each of the five research sites, mapping the canopy’s 3D structure and photosynthetic activity in order … drought, and disease — factors that are all changing along with the global climate. To differentiate between the …
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Racist housing practices from the 1930s linked to hotter neighborhoods today
… the country, if you want to understand the history of a neighborhood, you might want to do the same thing you'd do … neighborhoods on the redlining maps had the most tree cover in the city by 2011. Researchers on all three … Inequality database and compared them to heat and tree canopy data. The researchers looking at heat patterns used …
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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 … with long climbing stems that are common in the tropics. In competition for sunlight, lianas grow up trees and into … by lightning,” Gora notes. “When lianas are in the canopy, they amplify the effects of lightning strikes, …
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Beech Bark Disease
… cause bark lesions that grow and eventually girdle the tree, disrupting its internal nutrient transport system and … bark is disfigured and hardly recognizable. The decline of canopy beech trees is often accompanied by growth of dense … populations, including lowland and coastal plain forests along the US East Coast. It is not known whether these trees …
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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 … are in the woods, the farm fields, and the neighborhoods.” Deer, white-footed mice, disappearing … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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'One Mississippi...' How lightning shapes the climate
… could easily miss. "You need to come back to that tree over and over again over the next 6-18 months to … Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, in collaboration with canopy ecologist Steve Yanoviak , quantitative ecologist …
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Measuring soil water from space
… as colleagues from California, Michigan, and Maryland. Tree leaves play a major role in removing water from soil … two things: soil water content and condition of the forest canopy. SMAP orbits the earth from pole to pole many … As Earth rotates, SMAP takes soil moisture measurements along a 1000 km-wide path, north to south, about every three …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… apparent in urban areas, where birds were found dead along streets, there was less data on what was happening in … it back up again several years later, adding new data and analyses. By linking conditions at the birds’ …
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Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?
… use, such as through more efficient spreading methods. Environmental and health hazards Potassium acetate and … verges that contain plants. Rather than being piled into tree pits or onto grass, ice and snow that had been exposed … devastating winter storms of 2008, residents of villages along the Beijing–Zhuhai expressway reported issues with …
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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
… will be an increasingly prevalent part of our lives. New York City, June 7, 2023 at 2pm. Photo by MTA … are burning have experienced fire before, and are home to tree species that are fire adapted. What is changing is the … seedlings to survive and establish the next generation of canopy trees. Large swaths of forests are a fire away from …
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