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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… in particular how trees, soils, and microbes interact to control nitrogen, and how this regulates forest growth, … and more comprehensive air pollution monitoring, to prevent damage to our nation’s natural resources. Cary Senior … the natural world, and strong commitment to mentoring young scientists will live on. He is deeply missed. …
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Atrazine
… Pollution In 2002, a young Berkeley professor, Tyrone Hayes, reported that … Atrazine is a widely used herbicide, especially in corn, to control weeds at planting time. Atrazine affects the … It is easily soluble in water, so it is found in runoff and groundwater from fields of application. It is …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… And if so, which ones?” LaDeau’s model helped to control for factors like missing data and the variable … and measure its weight, record whether it was marked, age it, sex it and gather other data.” The results … urban landscape, paving the way for more effective mosquito control.
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Victoria Kelly
Victoria Kelly Environmental Monitoring Program Manager845 677-7600 x174kellyv@caryinstitute.org Vicky … monitoring climate as well as air, precipitation and streamwater quality, solar radiation, phenology, and the … and monitoring of water at the landscape scale. Recent publications include Road Salt: The Problem, The Solution, …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… Fatigue knocked him flat for hours at a time. Red rashes ravaged his skin. Finally, the headaches began, the screams, … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the … intact, getting deer, tick, and rodent populations under control, scaling back the WUI lifestyle that puts so many …
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Squirrels could make monkeypox a forever problem
… their population harbor it; they may have been caught at an age, or during a season, when the pathogen’s not present. … from surging into a new animal species, Han said, “is to control the human outbreak.” Already, monkeypox’s …
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New study identifies bird species that could spread ticks and Lyme disease
… body size, lifespan, reproductive rate, and fledgling age, as well as geographical information like migration … pace-of-life continuum (species that breed early and die young, or breed late and are longer lived). …
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Keeping the invasive bugs at bay
… Zealand, Lovett said, are the paragons of invasive species management. Whitmore also pointed to New Zealand as a … Cue the stingless wasps. Hope for ash Biological control is a fancy term for a living creature that is a kind … and stabilize shorelines and uphill areas from stormwater run-off. They’re a major water quality protector. …
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The more we lose biodiversity, the worse will be the spread of infectious diseases
… explains Patil. In the case of disease transmission dynamics, species evenness is important as it indicates the … weedy lifestyle—they tend to live fast and die young, reach sexual maturity at a young age, have many babies per brood and many broods per year, …
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Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19
… would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders … bats because we fear most what we understand least. The marriage between bats and viruses seems to provide the … in their environment, and how important they are to help control pest insects and also that they should not only be …
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