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  1. Dr. Jazlynn Hall

    … with Dr. Winslow Hansen and Dr. Charlie Canham to use simulation models and geospatial analysis to examine … tool for developing such baselines because they represent spatially continuous ecological processes that enable … from DYNAFFOREST, a state of the art forest and fire model, against those from forest inventory data to test the …

    ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:34

  2. Nitrogen-fixing trees help tropical forests grow faster and store more carbon

    … from the atmosphere. The study modeled how the mix of tree species growing in a tropical forest following a … Studies and coauthor on the paper, explains, "We want to use this work to guide tropical reforestation to optimize … in Panama - a record which includes data on over 13,000 individual trees ranging in age from five to 300 years …

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  3. Dr. Winslow D. Hansen

    … life globally. Trees sequester carbon emissions that cause climate warming, support much of the planet’s … simulations to model forest response – scaling from individual trees up to entire biomes. Together, these … Sara’s research focuses on how mechanisms of individual tree survival scale to community-level forest change, …

    ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15

  4. Racist housing practices from the 1930s linked to hotter neighborhoods today

    … to the research from Portland State University, the Science Museum of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University. … the Forest Service team used tree canopy data mainly from individual cities and the University of Vermont, and the … on the damage already done, Rothstein says. "Unless explicit action is taken to subsidize people who are denied …

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  5. Animal reservoirs—where the next SARS-CoV-2 variant could arise

    … worldwide had already succumbed to COVID-19, one infected individual—4-year-old Nadia—made global headlines. A … kind of remarkable Swiss Army Knife type of virus that can use [ACE-2] receptors from a broad range of species,” … might arise. Her team has developed a machine learning model to predict the most spillover-susceptible species. The …

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  6. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … of passenger pigeons that once competed with rodents for tree nuts and possibly suppressed mouse and chipmunk … than 50 percent as land conversion to exurban and suburban use has exploded. This trend has been particularly intense … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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  7. Strategies for achieving equitable green infrastructure in US urban planning

    … Across the US, cities have embraced green roofs, bioswales, tree plantings, interconnected parks, and other forms of … nonprofit institutions, and community advocates can use the toolkit to achieve more equitable green … press release .) Discover related resources, including publications, essays, a white paper , a Story Map , …

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  8. 'One Mississippi...' How lightning shapes the climate

    … could easily miss. "You need to come back to that tree over and over again over the next 6-18 months to … understand how lightning operates in these forests, and its implications for climate change. Lightning tends to strike … a healthy respect for the hazards it poses – both to individual researchers and to the forests that life on Earth …

  9. The Future of Biodiversity

    … practice started as the ‘doubled CO2’ scenario. Today, model comparisons focus on a small number of emissions … we can do about it have much to do with leadership. Our individual actions to use recyclables and alternative energy sources contribute to …

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  10. Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?

    … highway. The local government admitted that widespread use of road salts for snow clearance is a cause of the … 66 million tonnes are used for de-icing every year. The use of chloride salts on roads has long been controversial … verges that contain plants. Rather than being piled into tree pits or onto grass, ice and snow that had been exposed …

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