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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… actors occur,” one scientist told me. By the second half of the last century, the stage for the Lyme disease … was particularly well-suited for every phase of a tick’s life. In a forest of maple, oak, and pine on the eastern … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Victoria Kelly
… 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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Deadly diseases from wildlife thrive when nature is destroyed, study finds
… analysis has found. The research assessed nearly 7,000 animal communities on six continents and found that the … systems. “In other words, creatures that have rat-like life histories seem to be more tolerant of infections than … virus. Humans have already affected more than half of the Earth’s habitable land. Prof Kate Jones, of …
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Animal reservoirs—where the next SARS-CoV-2 variant could arise
Animal reservoirs—where the next SARS-CoV-2 variant could … with SARS-CoV-2 experience respiratory distress and life-threatening symptoms. Nadia survived, but … viral sharing between species might evolve over the next half century. As climate change alters human land use and …
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Birds and Hittites: How isotopes have helped a plant ecologist have fun!
… has given many seminars presenting biogeochemical and isotope-based ecosystem ecology research. However, in … a bit of fun. First, he will describe how we have used isotope ratios to determine ingredients and water sources of … Phosphorus is monoisotopic meaning we cannot use stable isotopes to trace or describe its dynamics. It makes …
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Antidepressant pollution alters crayfish behavior, with impacts to stream ecosystems
… rivers globally, but little is known about its effects on animals and ecosystems. A new study , published in the … to higher rates of leaf litter decomposition and biofilm turnover, altering in-steam nutrient flows. Either of these … to understand how pharmaceutical pollution impacts stream life at chronic, sublethal levels, and what these changes …
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Mohonk Lake is getting warmer and more stagnant with climate change
… Understanding effects of stratification on aquatic animals and water quality can help us manage things like … fall temperatures and later ice-on. Here, we found that turnover is happening later in the fall. We want to … algae can bloom in the bright, windless conditions of a stable water column. In recent years, we are also seeing …
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Squirrels could make monkeypox a forever problem
… “the super-spreader,” he told me, “who infected half of Wisconsin’s cases.” Chewy, a prairie dog, had … disease, which he’d almost certainly caught in an exotic-animal facility that he’d shared with infected pouched … Meseko, a veterinarian and virologist studying the human-wildlife interface at Nigeria’s National Veterinary …
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Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges
… oxygen from the water, suffocating fish and other aquatic life; erosion from farm fields smothered fish spawning … fueled runaway algal growth in Lake Erie. Over his long life, Trautman watched as pollution worsened and drove … is negligible, and sludge accumulates on the bottom. Animal life does not exist.” The Ohio EPA also …
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Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
… biologically active when it enters the environment through animal waste. Soil microcosms … inefficiently) to process carbon, less is converted into a stable organic form, which would become trapped in the soil. …
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