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What is a species?
What is a species? With the advent of molecular biology, ecologists are using quantitative measures of genetic differences to recognize species. Red wolf. Photo by …
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Cary to co-lead $4.8M study on how environmental conditions shape viral outbreaks in wild rodents
… Unlike other genetic sequencing techniques, which are quite targeted, metaviromics will allow the team to scan … diseases than any other mammalian order. Many rodent species live in close proximity to people and are highly … measurements, and by human movement and land use activity data. “These kinds of human-animal contact …
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What’s killing giant tropical trees? With $1.7M in awards, a Cary-led team aims to find out
… forensics project seeks to find out why they die, if deaths are increasing, and what it means for climate change. A … mapping the canopy’s 3D structure and photosynthetic activity in order to spot when a giant tree is ailing. An … Gora. The project’s results could help foresters focus on species that will be best adapted to future conditions. …
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Dr. David L. Strayer
… Ecologist Expertise Hudson River, invasive species, streams strayerd@caryinstitute.org Dave … ecology and invasion biology. Species introductions are one of the most important ways by which humans affect … 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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Animal reservoirs—where the next SARS-CoV-2 variant could arise
… reported SARS-CoV-2 infections in 23 nonhuman animal species, including not only big cats like tigers and lions … scientists say is heightened by a changing climate. “We are interacting more and more with wildlife in a planet … surface receptors to enter the cells and replicate. Minor differences in a virus surface protein’s structure can …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… strings of nature, and the consequences of its unraveling are impossible to reckon. Lyme, like Covid-19, is a zoonotic … showed that the disease wasn’t caused by a virus but by a species of spirochete bacterium, a type that shares a … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Squirrels could make monkeypox a forever problem
… scientists suspect that at least a couple of rodent species intermittently slosh it into humans. And as the … roughly 40 percent of known mammals. Though not all species are capable of carrying monkeypox—for example, guinea … are also in danger from humans,” he told me. Human activity, after all, brought monkeypox to the U.S. in 2003, …
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Q&A with Winslow Hansen: Wildfire in the western US
… in the western US Discover why wildfires are increasing and how science can help us adapt. 2013 … Hansen is developing new ways to project future wildfire activity in western North America and determine how and why … regimes across different regions. And, since some plant species burn hotter and easier than others, the type of …
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Soil carbon sequestration as a climate change solution
… I thoroughly agree) that soils with lots of organic matter are good for plant growth, retention of water and nutrients, … bogus. We can strive to make agriculture a carbon-neutral activity, but not a net sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide … oxide emissions from soils also increase when N-fixing species are planted as an alternative to fertilizer. …
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Dr. July Pilowsky
… Institute on disease ecology and viral spillover. They are applying process-explicit modeling techniques to better … in wild mammal populations, as well as spillover across species and into humans. They will use these results to … in mammals that facilitate disease transmission across species, allowing the identification of high-risk species …
ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:35