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Dr. Jane M. Lucas
… M. Lucas Community Ecologist Expertise microbial ecology, ecology of antibiotics, agricultural … x139lucasj@caryinstitute.org Jane Lucas studies microbial communities, which exist in nearly every environment and … is investigating how livestock practices shape antibiotic resistance. Antibiotics given to livestock inject …
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Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
… Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities Combined stressors could impair … change do not play out in isolation. Our results show that heat alone, antibiotics alone, and heat and …
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Beech Bark Disease
… healthy beech forests is lacking. Evidence of disease resistance There is a low level of natural resistance to … Scotia in 2012. It is killing beech trees in forested and urban areas of that province, causing up to 70% mortality of … of the disease on individual trees and retain trees that show some resistance; those trees represent the foundation …
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To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform
To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform … so forth – are disproportionately felt by marginalized communities. Yet city agencies and governments have … of the Urban Systems Lab. More details and other project publications can be found at www.giequity.org . …
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Troubling waters: Antiviral medications in wastewater may drive resistance in bat-borne viruses
… waters: Antiviral medications in wastewater may drive resistance in bat-borne viruses Researchers … been previously explored. A diagram shows a potential pathway for antiviral drugs to travel from … et al. A diverse suite of pharmaceuticals contaminates stream and riparian food webs . Nat Commun 9, 4491 …
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Strategies for achieving equitable green infrastructure in US urban planning
… for achieving equitable green infrastructure in US urban planning Research team puts forth … projects fail to consider impacts on marginalized communities. Given pending large scale investments in … press release .) Discover related resources, including publications, essays, a white paper , a Story Map , …
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Antidepressant pollution alters crayfish behavior, with impacts to stream ecosystems
… pollution alters crayfish behavior, with impacts to stream ecosystems Increased foraging and reduced … and quartz rocks in a local creek and left them to gather communities of algae, bacteria, fungi, and invertebrates. … They are stress-tolerant and can become abundant in urban waterways. These freshwaters are prone to receiving …
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Dosing the coast: Baltimore County’s leaky pipes are medicating the Chesapeake Bay
… in Environmental Science & Technology that monitored an urban stream network over a yearlong period. Drug concentrations … ecologist at Cary Institute, explains, “Our findings show that plants and animals exposed to sewage from leaky …
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Deadly diseases from wildlife thrive when nature is destroyed, study finds
… has found. The research assessed nearly 7,000 animal communities on six continents and found that the conversion … nature was protected. The new analysis is the first to show how the demolition of wild places, as the world’s … areas have been converted to croplands, pastures and urban areas. The patterns the researchers detected were …
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Peter Groffman elected president of the Ecological Society of America
… Society of America January 22, 2024 Microbial ecologist Peter Groffman , a senior research … . “From microbes to global biogeochemical cycles, from urban to forest ecosystems, from soil to water, from …
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