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Caught on Camera: Our Wildlife Neighbors
… Fargione also discusses how wildlife cameras inform ecological research, shares tips on installing wildlife … on the trail camera work. We have yet to analyze these data. Q. Could one create migration … you're gonna see some additional photos from a second log jam. Michael Fargione 47:15 This bridge was …
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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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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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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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Cary Institute to host Climate Week NYC event on addressing the wildfire crisis
… scale. “Managers and policy makers are being asked to balance the competing demands of human safety, … practitioners access to rigorous insights from the best data and most robust models will ensure that we invest in …
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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 … indicating that small trees are damaged and killed more frequently when liana density is high and trees have direct …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… infectious organisms into his bloodstream. Anderson—who asked that his real name not be used in this article to … Lyme and other tick-borne pathogens have emerged from ecosystems that have been disturbed, fragmented, and … each year and with increasing frequency, though far less frequently than Lyme. What to do? “It is an …
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Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges
… Dr. David L. Strayer Freshwater Ecologist … in slicks, sometimes several inches thick, are observed frequently. Debris and trash are commonly caught up in these … for decades about its flaws, which need to be fixed. Yet data from Ohio and elsewhere show that the act greatly …
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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 … in the 90th percentile for predicted zoonotic capacity, are frequently handled by biologists for research and …
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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. … easy. For one thing, pandemics are likely to happen more frequently, researchers say, driven by human behavior that …
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