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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… (1975) and a PhD from Dartmouth College in Biology and Plant Ecology (1981). Before being hired at Cary Institute, … early research transformed how scientists calculate forest nitrogen budgets. He was among the first to document that … most severe threat to forest health throughout the eastern US. Dr. Canham notes “The thing that I consider so …
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Dr. Arielle Biro
… ecosystem drivers, ranging from climate, fire, species composition, and soil nutrients, affect the future of boreal … University where she worked on nutrient acquisition and plant-microbe interactions in African savannas. Her research … understanding how soil nutrients, soil microbes, fire, and nitrogen fixation affect savanna tree growth and ecosystem …
ltumblety - 12/06/2023 - 08:49
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In Panama, nitrogen-fixing trees unlock phosphorus and other scarce nutrients
In Panama, nitrogen-fixing trees unlock phosphorus and other scarce … is very limited in tropical forest soils and important to plant growth.” In this study, the team compared the … releases nutrients trapped in rocks. They also assessed the composition of the soil microbial community. …
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Leaded soil
… samples, but it is worth noting that the average lead concentration in the Earth’s upper continental crust is … Pollution 163: 32-39. Wedepohl, K.H. 1995. The composition of the continental crust. Geochimica et … J. Antonovics. 1976. Experimental ecological genetics in Plantago: Lead tolerance in Plantago lanceolata and Cynodon …
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Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?
… corrosion. Moreover, chloride salts increase the salt concentration of water sources and soil. This affects the growth of roadside plants, and can even lead to their wilting and death. … or so, some cities have been raising standards on their composition, as well as promoting what they deem to be …
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Dr. Jane M. Lucas
… soil health, global change ecology, ecology of microbiomes, plant-insect-microbe interactions, bioinformatics, … the world. A central question: How are people impacting the composition and function of microbial communities? … antibiotics affect soil microbes, soil carbon storage, nitrogen cycling, and the rise of antibiotic resistance. …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:12
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Dr. Evan Gora
… Expertise forest ecology, lightning, plant death, decomposition 845 677-7600 … of their deaths for forest ecosystems. His research helps us understand the current stressors affecting forests and … to understanding how agents of mortality are reshaping the composition of our forests and their capacity to store …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:10
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Victoria Kelly
… of water in the landscape. Data from the program have been used to understand the dynamics of road salt and the effects … salt reduction practices, the impact of climate change on plant and animal life cycle events (phenology), 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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Dr. Sarah Batterman
… carbon sink, tropical ecosystems, biodiversity, land use change, climate change, symbiotic nitrogen fixation 845 677-7600 x148 One of the … also turning to the past to understand how the evolution of plant symbioses with fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria …
ltumblety - 01/03/2024 - 10:11
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… around the country, Lyme has been unrelenting in its march across the eastern United States and the Midwest. Carried by … interface in places like Connecticut and New York—where residential development meets forest—that human health is … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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