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Why oceanic islands buck biodiversity trends
… al./Nature 2024 “Many plants rely on fungi to access soil nutrients, or on specialized pollinators to … how human introduction of plants to islands alters the patterns seen in the study. The findings also offer a …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… we decided that we could go a step further and see if the patterns in the breeding region agreed with the data that … approach gave us the opportunity to really broaden out the spatial scope of what we were considering.” “It's …
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… the Catskill Science Collaborative , and the Northeastern Ecosystem Research Cooperative . Colleague … & enjoyed very much our discussions about the fate of soil C and N on those plots. I will always remember you! …
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Exposure to past temperature variability may help forests cope with climate change
… Institute of Ecosystem Studies, says, “Global climate patterns are becoming increasingly variable. This means more … Here, we were essentially testing that adage for trees. Are forested regions that experienced more variable conditions … of how dry the air is). Global data were gridded at a 0.5° spatial resolution. Change in …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… roughly three-fourths of southern New England had been deforested, transformed into fenced pastures, farm fields, … the Northeast’s depleted lands for the rich post-glacial soil of the Midwest. The forests came back in a big way. By … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Measuring the moisture in forest soils from space
… This water provides critical support for life on Earth. Soil moisture regulates plant growth, affecting wildlife and … Earth and atmosphere – processes that determine weather patterns. Measuring soil moisture with ground sensors … and validate SMAP satellite data – specifically over forested terrain. Originally, the SMAP mission aimed to …
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Measuring soil water from space
Measuring soil water from space NASA collaboration … as leaves lose their capacity to draw water. These patterns tend to operate consistently on a macro level. But … from May through October 2019. Readings were taken at a forested monitoring site located in Kent, Connecticut. …
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Leaded soil
Leaded soil It has taken nearly half a century for lead … a concurrent decline in the average content of lead in the soil (-45%) and in the blood of children (-64%) in New … 2012. The effects of the urban built environment on the spatial distribution of lead in residential soils. …
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Only the profits will flow upstream
… ecosystems have “connectivity.”—what enters at the headwaters inevitably determines water quality downstream. … groundwater recharge, and denitrification—habitats where soil bacteria can remove nitrate and convert it to nitrogen gas that fills 78% of our …
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Trees and the public good
… flood risk and greater amounts of moisture entering the soil for plant uptake. Reductions in impervious surface are also associated with reductions in the runoff of nitrate, which is taken up by trees and soil microbes. Reductions in pavement result in cooling, …
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