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  1. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … for the surging presence of Lyme and its zoonotic cousins among us. As a result, millions of Americans now live in … with hazel eyes and an earnest smile, has been studying the relationships between ticks, rodents, deer, other mammals, … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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

    … with nonprofits, government, and industry, chief among them his Tree-SMART Trade campaign. A deeply … was a leader and collaborator in so many other communities, among them the Hubbard Brook Long Term Ecological Research … in 1985. He recalls, “Gary was incredibly bright and an early adopter of using computer models to understand …

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  3. Rare spotting of moose on Cary's Hudson Valley campus

    … snapped images of the adult female moose during October and early November before she moved off to whereabouts unknown. … year’s visitor was the first one seen at Cary in modern history. Moose are the largest living members of the deer … (and elk and caribou) as their primary host during all life stages. Winter ticks don’t drop off after taking a …

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  4. New study identifies bird species that could spread ticks and Lyme disease

    … with 4691 other bird species. Data included information on life history features like diet composition, foraging … extreme of the pace-of-life continuum (species that breed early and die young, or breed late and are longer lived). … us that pathogen competence varies tremendously, even among animals of the same family. Machine learning …

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  5. Jonathan J. Cole: In Memory

    … aquatic plants a minor contributor.” Among his many accomplishments, Jon was a member of both the … in his love of culture, food, and travel – many  early career scientists fell under his spell, to their great … broad perspective on how to manage a career with personal  life, and taught many of us that we could have a valuable …

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  6. Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19

    … (Ebola virus, rabies virus, Nipah virus, Hendra virus, among others) notes Barbara Han , disease ecologist at … quickly. “When COVID first broke out some of the early speculations were that it even came from cobras. Can … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders …

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

    … this story in Ohio, where a couple of famous events in the history of water pollution occurred, and where we have good … who studied fish from the time that he was a boy in the early 20th century until he was an old man in the 1970s, … oxygen from the water, suffocating fish and other aquatic life; erosion from farm fields smothered fish spawning …

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  8. Machine learning IDs mammal species with the potential to spread SARS-CoV-2

    … variants.” White-tailed deer were among the high-risk species flagged, and are commonly found … that it evolved in animals alongside other ecological and life history traits. By comparing biological traits of … only one that has been able to make risk predictions across nearly all mammal species. Every time we hear about a new …

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  9. Catching the next pandemic early: the coronavirus is one example

    Catching the next pandemic early: the coronavirus is one example April 21, … of a mosquito, magnified about 1,000 times larger than life, glared from a screen at the front of the room. A … to AI for help. Outbreaks of animal-borne plagues occur among humans with distressing regularity. From 2013 to 2016, …

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  10. Nitrogen-fixing trees help tropical forests grow faster and store more carbon

    … land is abandoned, remaining trees create habitat for wildlife that can help disperse seeds and kickstart … This adaptation gives them an edge in recently cleared, early succession tropical soils that are nitrogen-poor. … team developed a model that represents interactions among soil, plants, and nutrients at the scale of individual …

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