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  1. Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities

    … communities Combined stressors could impair soils’ ability to cycle nutrients and trap carbon … The team collected samples of prairie soil from preserved land in northern Idaho that was free of grazing livestock. Vegetation cover at the collection site, primarily tallgrass …

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  2. Measuring the moisture in forest soils from space

    Measuring the moisture in forest soils from space NASA satellite can inform … dominated by grasslands, crops, and other low-growing vegetation. However, much of the Earth’s surface is … we are monitoring soil moisture across two swaths of land the size of SMAP’s 20 x 20 mile ‘footprint’ …

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  3. New study identifies the best areas for rewilding European bison

    Land-use & Human Impacts , … a detailed simulation that combined paleoclimate data, vegetation and habitat information, the population growth …

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  4. How Much Oil Can We Burn?

    … from place to place. World transport depends on oil—on land, at sea, and in the air. We’ve been using internal … of coal, manufacture of cement, and destruction of vegetation and soils accounting for about 40%. In short, we’ve spent …

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  5. To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform

    … of green infrastructure projects. “Many US cities use green infrastructure to comply with storm water … Quality at the University of Connecticut’s Center for Land Use Education and Research. … of the Urban Systems Lab. More details and other project publications can be found at www.giequity.org . …

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  6. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … William Cronon recounts in his classic book Changes in the Land. What’s more, colonists rendered large areas of New … 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. Dr. Danielle Hare

    … studying the response of stream ecosystems to climatic and land use changes.  Her research interests are generally … Research Dr. Hare earned her PhD from the University of Connecticut in Ecosystem Ecology in the Natural Resources …

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  8. Q&A with Winslow Hansen: Wildfire in the western US

    … and fuel (like dry leaves, branches, and dead grass) on the landscape. In the western US, higher temperatures and … species burn hotter and easier than others, the type of vegetation growing in a region influences the fires that … and other dead plant matter burn, the ashes enrich forest soils. Many species rely on fire during key life stages. …

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  9. Pandemics: Humans are the culprits

    … occur where suburban areas sprawl into newly-cleared land. Many more are believed to have been caused by hunting, … of some of these diseases. So the way we farm, the way we use the soils, the way we protect coastal ecosystems, and the way we …

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  10. Agriculture without weeds and bugs

    … chemicals to ensure safety before they are in widespread use. February 12, 2020 Dr. … only significant correlate being proximity to agricultural land. Similar results were seen in an analysis of 30 forested sites. In organic agriculture, soils and plants are explicitly expected to be …

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