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  1. Cary Institute partners on $3M study on COVID-19 variants that could emerge from wildlife

    … Project combines artificial intelligence, virology, and ecology to anticipate future SARS-CoV-2 strains with the … in the vast majority of mammals. To overcome this dearth of data, the team will use artificial intelligence to predict … you can have multiple infected species interfacing via competition, predator-prey relationships, or other forms of …

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  2. Cary to co-lead $4.8M study on how environmental conditions shape viral outbreaks in wild rodents

    … people. The project is co-led by Barbara Han , a disease ecologist at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies , in an … viral loads and frequent contact with people, explained James Hassell, a wildlife veterinarian and epidemiologist … measurements, and by human movement and land use activity data.  “These kinds of human-animal contact data are …

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

    … European bison Simulations integrate historical records, fossils, and ancient DNA to reveal why the European … built a detailed simulation that combined paleoclimate data, vegetation and habitat information, the population … plans. Lessons learned are informing new lines of inquiry for Pilowsky. At Cary Institute, they are …

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  4. In the Tropics, woody vines make lightning more deadly for forests

    … lightning strikes each year, and strikes appear to be becoming more frequent. Evan Gora , the paper’s lead … with long climbing stems that are common in the tropics. In competition for sunlight, lianas grow up trees and into … trees (1,434 of 1,681). These included: (1) physical contact with a liana, (2) physical contact with a tree, (3) …

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  5. A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate change

    … rest of their lives. The fatality in Connecticut is the second Powassan-related death in the United States this … in the three years that he’s been collecting citizen data. It’s also possible that other tick species, like the … Thangamani worries that more humans could come into contact with Powassan-carrying ticks. Ostfeld isn’t so …

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  6. Machine learning IDs mammal species with the potential to spread SARS-CoV-2

    … Insights can guide surveillance to prevent secondary spillover, new variants. Photo by Olivier … to predicting high-risk mammal species is limited data on ACE2, the cell receptor that SARS-CoV-2 binds to in … kept in zoos where there are many opportunities for close contact with people. Photo by Leng Cheng . The top …

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  7. The Search for Animals That Could Carry the Next Deadly Virus

    … you are looking for,” says Barbara A. Han , a disease ecologist at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in … algorithms to novel combinations of ecological and other data to better predict animals’ SARS-CoV-2 disease risk. … and cities. “We are putting ourselves into greater contact with animals and their microbes,” says Dr. Scott …

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  8. Can an algorithm predict the next disease outbreak?

    … already behind the chains. Barbara Han , a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute, is looking to put humanity … of contracting them. The decades' worth of animal data that has been painstakingly gathered by biologists — … the patterns of people and animals, bringing us closer into contact. A truly connected world, where a pathogen can pop …

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  9. Once, America had its own parrot

    … covered by them as they could possibly be,” John James Audubon wrote in 1830. When the parrots landed on a … Masferrer i Rierola sometime in the early 1900s. He did not record where he killed it. Researchers had previously … wiped out those thriving populations, she said: “These data underscore the devastating impact that we can have on …

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

    … Sarah Batterman , a Research Fellow at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and coauthor on the paper, explains, "We … affect forest growth and carbon sequestration." Using data collected at 112 tropical forest plots in Panama - a … at the scale of individual trees. The model accounts for competition between plants for light and nutrients, nutrient …

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