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Exposure to past temperature variability may help forests cope with climate change
… priorities, support forest adaptation efforts, and improve carbon accounting. Lead author Winslow Hansen , a … included monthly mean, minimum, and maximum temperatures, total precipitation, and mean vapor pressure deficit (a … variability is expected to substantially increase. Our analysis indicates that tropical forests could be harder hit …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… our rodent friend’s expense (female ticks will consume a total of three blood meals over the course of their lives, … in the Lyme disease system. Through long-term trapping and analysis of mouse and tick populations in the forests around … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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How it all started
… How it all started Microbial activity in rocks may characterize life on other planets and their moons. In a … all the world’s oceans. These submarine mountain ranges total about 37,000 miles in length. Along these ridges the … in reactions known as chemosynthesis to generate organic carbon in complete darkness. The rate of metabolism is slow …
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Dr. Winslow D. Hansen
… climate and sustain life globally. Trees sequester carbon emissions that cause climate warming, support much of … building on this work to determine where people and forests may be most threatened by fires across the western United … is a research support professional specializing in data analysis, code writing of all kinds, GIS, and high …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15
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Nitrogen-fixing trees help tropical forests grow faster and store more carbon
… trees help tropical forests grow faster and store more carbon Planting fixers could benefit … to estimate nitrogen fixation fluxes. These models tend to overestimate the amount of nitrogen in the system. Lead … 20 years. To give that number some context, 6.4Gt was the total amount of CO2 equivalents emitted in the US in 2017. …
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Dr. Danielle Hare
Dr. Danielle Hare Watershed Ecologist Expertise aquatic … research examined how changing stream temperature affects organic carbon cycling and stream ecosystems, and methods to use …
ltumblety - 02/05/2024 - 09:36
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Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
… could impair soils’ ability to cycle nutrients and trap carbon Research assistant Peter Hoch collects prairie … fungi to dominate and homogenize – resulting in fewer total microbes and less microbial diversity overall. … temperatures alone increased soil respiration and dissolved organic carbon. Increases in these labile carbon pools can …
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Measuring the moisture in forest soils from space
… which is an important indicator for growing season and carbon cycling. Sensors housed in … weather, and temperature regulation. For example, you may have noticed that a heavy rain after a prolonged drought … for processing the U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis data.
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Diapers: to change or not to change
… are produced with biopolymers of plant origin, which may offer long-term net carbon sequestration from the atmosphere if they are … and presumably roughly similar for the U.S. For comparison, total CO2 emissions in the U.S. are about 6700 million …
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West Nile virus infection risk is higher in less affluent neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD
… to healthcare. We also found that larger mosquitoes, which may have greater infection potential, thrive in less … the team set traps (4-6 traps per neighborhood; 26 traps total) and left them to lure mosquitoes for 72 hours. Traps were baited with carbon dioxide and a mammal-derived attractant, and were …
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