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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… white-footed mouse abundance is heavily influenced by the availability of acorns and other foods on the forest floor. … drop vast amounts of acorns to increase their chances of reproduction, rodent populations will devour these … 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
Measuring the moisture in forest soils from space NASA satellite can inform … weather forecasting and hone crop yield and seasonal water availability projections. Soil moisture can foreshadow … policymakers anticipate changes in water security and food production. Climate scientists predicting future conditions …
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Nitrogen-fixing trees help tropical forests grow faster and store more carbon
… them an edge in recently cleared, early succession tropical soils that are nitrogen-poor. Fixers also help fertilize … would alter other aspects of the ecosystem, such as light availability, which would skew findings. It would also take … parameters such as evapotranspiration and net primary production to estimate nitrogen fixation fluxes. These …
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Dr. Jane M. Lucas
… the hidden complexity of microbial life, primarily in soils, from tropical forests to farmlands around the world. … the University of Oklahoma, where she studied how nutrient availability and antibiotics influence tropical soil … and antibacterial compounds affect decomposition in soils, and how activities of a tropical ant impact …
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… of nutrient cycling in forests, in particular how trees, soils, and microbes interact to control nitrogen, and how …
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Strategies for achieving equitable green infrastructure in US urban planning
… extreme heat, and toxic pollution, while improving the availability and quality of urban green space. Across the … press release .) Discover related resources, including publications, essays, a white paper , a Story Map , …
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Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
… communities Combined stressors could impair soils’ ability to cycle nutrients and trap carbon … Lead author Jane Lucas measures CO2 production from prairie soil samples in Moscow, Idaho. … effects, things like soil carbon storage capacity and crop production could be jeopardized. In addition to broader …
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Hydrogen fuels
… It is easy to jump to the conclusion that human production of hydrogen as fuel may be responsible, but the … is consumed in a variety of reactions, especially in soils and sediments by microbes that consume hydrogen as an … about 2 years in the atmosphere. The balance between the production of hydrogen and its destruction determines the …
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Ammonia
… to most of us. But, nearly all of the annual industrial production of ammonia goes into other products, especially … fertilizers made from ammonia. All aim to supplement the availability of nitrogen for crop growth. Not all the … and thus lower formation of ammonium sulfate (and nitrate) aerosols. That brings us to agriculture. At the …
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Leaded soil
… in the environment because lead is rather immobile in soils. In 1976, analysis of street-side soil in Durham, NC, … leaded gasoline. Similar values were reported in the urban soils in Baltimore, Maryland. Now 45 years later, Anna Wade, … built environment on the spatial distribution of lead in residential soils. Environmental Pollution 163: 32-39. …
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