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Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
… Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities Combined stressors could … projection. For each treatment, the team monitored soil respiration, acidity, microbial community composition and … term." Soil surface showing fungal growth (white mycelium) in an antibiotic treated microcosm. …
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Dosing the coast: Baltimore County’s leaky pipes are medicating the Chesapeake Bay
… infrastructure delivers tens of thousands of human doses of pharmaceuticals to the Chesapeake Bay every year. So reports … and streams can disrupt animal biology and behavior, algal growth, and other ecological processes – with harmful …
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Antidepressant pollution alters crayfish behavior, with impacts to stream ecosystems
… processes like nutrient cycling, oxygen levels, and algal growth. Coauthor Emma Rosi , a freshwater ecologist … septic tanks, and treated wastewater effluent that contains pharmaceuticals. Lead author Alexander Reisinger, an …
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Dr. Sarah Batterman
… how the biodiversity of tropical tree species, their microbial partners, and nutrients govern tropical rainforest … the forests with nitrogen, enhancing tropical rainforest growth, and, ultimately, increasing the size of the carbon …
ltumblety - 01/03/2024 - 10:11
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… interact to control nitrogen, and how this regulates forest growth, carbon sequestration, and nitrogen pollution to …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… human development. Ballooning deer populations, second-growth forests, suburban and exurban growth, habitat … that once competed with rodents for tree nuts and possibly suppressed mouse and chipmunk abundance in the process. … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges
… could survive; and excessive nutrient loads fueled runaway algal growth in Lake Erie. Over his long life, Trautman watched … from detergents, fertilizer and sewage, leading to algal scums and fish kills. In the late 1960s, national …
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In Panama, nitrogen-fixing trees unlock phosphorus and other scarce nutrients
… limited in tropical forest soils and important to plant growth.” In this study, the team compared the soils of … in rocks. They also assessed the composition of the soil microbial community. Tropical forests … that soils beneath nitrogen fixers were teeming with a bacterial genus new to science (Candidatus Acidoferrum) that …
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Mohonk Lake is getting warmer and more stagnant with climate change
… can help us manage things like fish kills and harmful algal blooms. When a lake remains stratified for longer … or ‘anoxic’. This is because lake bottoms are home to microbial decomposers that use oxygen when they break down … unmixed water – a perfect breeding ground for toxic algal blooms. How can we use information on …
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How to stop the next pandemic
… as abundant. Large wildlife species suppress mouse populations by about 25%, and cattle suppress them by an additional 25%. Source: Cascading …
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