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New study identifies the best areas for rewilding European bison
… Video: A map of bison abundance and range over time, based on thousands of simulations. Abundance is shown as the … been done without a strong understanding of habitats and regions where bison once thrived. As a result, the species … also be adapted to reconstruct the causes of population declines and range collapses of other large herbivores, …
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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
… way south into the Northeastern US, causing unprecedented declines in air quality. Sunlight was dimmed, haze reduced … Smoke produced from these fires is carried south by atmospheric circulation patterns. The unhealthy air … In the meantime, there is real potential for science-based management to reduce the intensity and severity of …
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… the Catskill Science Collaborative , and the Northeastern Ecosystem Research Cooperative . Colleague … budgets. He was among the first to document that dry atmospheric deposition - from particles in the air - … assembling interdisciplinary experts and advancing science-based solutions to prevent the accidental importation of new …
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Monarchs
… formal, long-term studies of insect populations in several regions. Recent work in the western United States has shown … Possible state change for Monarch butterflies in western North America. Ecology Letters 24: 1533-1538. Forister, … J. Wiedmann, and N.M. Haddad. 2019. Butterfly abundance declines over 20 years of systematic monitoring in Ohio, …
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With global challenges in mind, keeping a decades-long success story at the forefront
… along with colleagues, an analysis and summary in Atmospheric Environment of what became a national monitoring … in 1978. In all, the combined networks include over 250 locations across the nation. “This paper was an attempt … precipitation levels correspondingly declined. “The declines resulted from federal legislation which reduced the …
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Ocean acidification
… are emitted as air pollutants, they cause acid rain in the regions downwind of the source. The rain that falls is a … dissolved in them. The pH of seawater in the central North Pacific Ocean has dropped from 8.2 to about 8.05 … calcification of marine plankton in response to increased atmospheric CO2. Nature 407: 364-367. …
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Mohonk Lake is getting warmer and more stagnant with climate change
… and why is it important? Lakes in northern temperate regions (approximately Pennsylvania to Maine on the eastern … you connected Mohonk Lake’s temperature record to the North Atlantic Oscillation, which influences climate on a … Oscillation (NAO) is a cross-continent fluctuation of atmospheric pressure that affects winter and spring weather …
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Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19
… ecosystems. Manuel Ruedi who has been studying bats from Europe and Southeast Asia, said the demonisation of the … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders … and consumption of the animals in remote northeastern regions in India, Ruedi who also works on the group in …
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Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study
… cycle of terrestrial ecosystems. Major depletion of base cations, primarily calcium, from soil pools by acid rain. … neotropical migrant birds. More than 1,500 scientific publications, 12 books, and 8 monographs have been …
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'One Mississippi...' How lightning shapes the climate
… understand how lightning operates in these forests, and its implications for climate change. Lightning tends to strike … , quantitative ecologist Helene Muller-Landau , and atmospheric physicists Phillip Bitzer and Jeff …