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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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