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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… fragmented or perforated, low on predator and competitor diversity, and riddled with human developments. And it’s … New York City’s tick problem. A disease ecologist who recently completed her PhD at Columbia, VanAcker spent the … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Agriculture without weeds and bugs
… that are applied to keep the fields weed-free. The diversity of soil bacteria and fungi is sacrificed and … in 150 grasslands in Germany showed losses of 67% of biomass, 78% of abundance, and 34% of insect diversity, with … applied to farm fields in Japan led to a decline of zooplankton and fishes in nearby lakes. Pursuit of …
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Peter Groffman elected president of the Ecological Society of America
… (2003-2004), Steward Pickett (2011-2012), and most recently, Kathleen Weathers (2020-2021). Looking … on issues such as open access, participatory science, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. In a lecture on …
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Jonathan J. Cole: In Memory
… carbon stored in soils is exported to streams, rivers, and lakes. His work in the Hudson River and Wisconsin lakes also revealed how terrestrial carbon ‘feeds’ aquatic food webs – showing that a large fraction of fish biomass is derived from land-based carbon, and that some …
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Cary Institute’s Steward Pickett Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
… the 120 new members, including 30 international scholars, recently announced. Two Cary-affiliated scientists were also … Botanical Society of America’s Centennial Award (2006). Recently, he was honored with the Ecological Society of … And Jon Cole was elected in 2014 for his studies of lakes and rivers. For the full list of newly elected …
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Ask the scientists: GLEON
… Lakes An international … and managers is working together to understand and manage lakes around the world. The Global Lake Ecological … social functions, workshops, and networking opportunities. Recently, I helped organize student workshops for a virtual …
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Urban greening success could be as simple as scattering seeds
… plant communities in vacant urban lots. The study was recently published in the journal Ambio . … needs, to see which yielded the highest target species diversity and floral abundance. These methods included: seed … team evaluated plant success by measuring the abundance, diversity, and height of planted species in the plots, as …
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Pandemics: Humans are the culprits
… actions with the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD (link is external)). “The present COVID-19 … with Lyme disease and West Nile virus in the US, thrive in recently deforested land, and are spreading around the world …
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Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19
… bats is not that surprising. “Bats have a high species diversity; in addition to this, they have been sampled more … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders … Saikia “The Bat Fauna of Meghalaya, Northeast India: Diversity and Conservation” that discusses the diversity …
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Is the coronavirus pandemic related to meat production?
… exotica. The other is catering to the needs of relatively recently arrived migrants to the major cities who, one way … often with a focus on the intrinsic value of nature, of diversity, of natural areas, wilderness, etc. But there is …
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