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  1. Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend

    … rainfall. Gary also advanced scientific understanding of nutrient cycling in forests, in particular how trees, soils, … interact to control nitrogen, and how this regulates forest growth, carbon sequestration, and nitrogen pollution to … back to Earth.” While undertaking long-term studies on nutrient cycling in Catskill Mountain forests, Gary was …

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  2. In the tropics, nitrogen-fixing trees take a hit from herbivores

    … insects and other animals reduces nitrogen, limits forest growth. Photo by Sarah Batterman December 7, 2022 … traits were also collected across species, and included: nutrient concentrations, physical defenses, leaf toughness, … this sink is weakening due to climate change and potential limitation by nitrogen. The widespread cost of herbivory for …

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  3. Beech Bark Disease

    … and eventually girdle the tree, disrupting its internal nutrient transport system and causing it to deteriorate … The decline of canopy beech trees is often accompanied by growth of dense thickets of beech saplings, which will … be found in disjunct populations, including lowland and coastal plain forests along the US East Coast. It is not …

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  4. Dr. Arielle Biro

    … Biology from Yale University where she worked on nutrient acquisition and plant-microbe interactions in … microbes, fire, and nitrogen fixation affect savanna tree growth and ecosystem nutrient pools. Dr. Arielle BiroPhD, Yale …

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  5. New study identifies the best areas for rewilding European bison

    … data, vegetation and habitat information, the population growth and expansion of Palaeolithic humans across Eurasia, … the species has been released at sites ranging from the coastal dunes of the Netherlands to the mountains of the …

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  6. How Tropical Trees Overcome Nutrient Limitations

    How Tropical Trees Overcome Nutrient Limitations Lead Scientist(s) : Dr. … strategies are most important for alleviating nutrient limitation in tropical forests. To address these questions … be expected to absorb in the future. Publications

  7. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … human development. Ballooning deer populations, second-growth forests, suburban and exurban growth, habitat degradation, predator eradication, wildlife … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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  8. Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges

    … streams so acid that no fish could survive; and excessive nutrient loads fueled runaway algal growth in Lake Erie. Over his long life, Trautman watched … pollution. Lake Erie had become overly green as a result of nutrient pollution from detergents, fertilizer and sewage, …

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  9. Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities

    … term."  Soil surface showing fungal growth (white mycelium) in an antibiotic treated microcosm. … and temperature interact to disrupt soil communities and nutrient cycling . Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Volume …

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  10. Soil carbon sequestration as a climate change solution

    … that soils with lots of organic matter are good for plant growth, retention of water and nutrients, and soil health.  … also lost alongside soil organic carbon.  To restore these nutrient stocks requires inputs of N and P from outside …

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