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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… in which ticks and the diseases they disgorge now seem as persistent and inevitable as a wave—moving, shifting, … was experiencing eye problems, perhaps due to the lingering effects of Lyme. To help me understand how the town of … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
… We should expect that the direct and indirect effects of fire will be an increasingly prevalent part of … smoke exposure range from minor eye and respiratory tract infection to more serious exacerbation of asthma, heart … shift happen in a compressed timescale, and it will have implications for biodiversity, carbon storage, and even …
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Dr. David L. Strayer
… whose current work focuses on measuring the long-term effects of zebra mussels on the Hudson River ecosystem, and … from the water. These animals can have large, pervasive effects on aquatic ecosystems. Strayer is currently … of species and ecosystems. In addition to his scientific publications, Strayer has written several dozen essays for …
ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:40
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Victoria Kelly
… been used to understand the dynamics of road salt and the effects of climate change on precipitation chemistry. … and monitoring of water at the landscape scale. Recent publications include Road Salt: The Problem, The Solution, …
ltumblety - 08/01/2023 - 09:43
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Beech Bark Disease
… fatal. The disease also makes the trees more vulnerable to infection by wood-rotting fungi and damage by wind and ice. … tree species in the forest. Such shifts have important effects on soil development and nutrient cycling 2 . …
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A diversity of wildlife is good for our health
… Institute of Ecosystem Studies. She explains, “There's a persistent myth that wild areas with high levels of … die young, and have early sexual maturity with lots of offspring tend to invest less in their adaptive immune responses. They are often better at …
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Dosing the coast: Baltimore County’s leaky pipes are medicating the Chesapeake Bay
… over a yearlong period. Drug concentrations detected were persistent, variable, and occurred at ecologically relevant … and other ecological processes – with harmful cascading effects. Lead author Megan Fork , a postdoctoral … that low chronic exposures can result in significant effects on stream life.” Water …
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Impaired wild mice survive and thrive as well as unimpaired counterparts
… more broadly, that physical impairments reduce measures of fitness such as survival, movement, and mass.” … prior studies revealing the ability of mice to tolerate infection by some parasites. Whether this tolerance to … Francesca I., Oggenfuss Kelly and Ostfeld Richard S. 2021. Effects of physical impairments on fitness correlates of the …
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Antidepressant pollution alters crayfish behavior, with impacts to stream ecosystems
… streams and rivers globally, but little is known about its effects on animals and ecosystems. A new study , published in the journal Ecosphere , investigated the effects of antidepressant pollution on crayfish. Just two … streams receiving citalopram every other day to mimic low, persistent pharmaceutical pollution found in urban streams. …
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Why is this virus different?
… cells, and they’re not living organisms. They’re parasitic particles that hijack the cells of living … will be fewer and fewer infected hosts over time and the infection will die out.) Ro for … people before they’ve already transmitted a deadly infection to many other people. What should you do? …
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