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In the tropics, nitrogen-fixing trees take a hit from herbivores
… herbivory constraints on nitrogen-fixing trees in climate models and projections of the tropical forest carbon sink. … carbon cost of herbivory, and (3) if herbivory was due to herbivore preference for nitrogen-rich leaves. … costs due to herbivory than non-fixers, exceeding the metabolic cost of fixing nitrogen. Unexpectedly, high …
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Is the coronavirus pandemic related to meat production?
… New York. Dr. Benjamin Chapman, extension food safety specialist and associate professor at North Carolina State … rats and mice. It turns out that those small omnivorous generalist species tend to harbor more pathogens, and more …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… with oats, are snapped shut. The team’s senior research specialist, Kelly Oggenfuss, opens one and reaches inside to … the pathogens.” Rodents, deer, and other hardy habitat generalists do well in degraded forests that are often … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Ecology and artificial intelligence: stronger together
… are notoriously fragile , with potentially devastating consequences, such as misdiagnosing cancer or causing a car … ecological knowledge could help to solve the problem of mode collapse in artificial neural networks, the AI systems … speech recognition, computer vision, and more. “Mode collapse is when you're training an artificial neural …
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Drivers of Ecosystem-level Coupled Carbon and Nitrogen Pumps in Savannas
… sufficient to replace N volatilization from fires and herbivore dung and urine, and herbivore net transport of N from uplands to woodland and … rates, associated with grazing in a long-term Serengeti herbivore exclosure experiment. When these two …
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Elizabeth Valentine
Elizabeth Valentine Associate Research Specialist845 677-7600 x278valentinee@caryinstitute.org …
ltumblety - 12/05/2023 - 13:41
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Cora Potter
Cora Potter Associate Research Specialistpotterc@caryinstitute.org Cora Potter Placement Scientific Staff Research Support
ltumblety - 12/13/2023 - 15:44
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Biodiversity, Community Ecology, and the Dilution Effect
… the following conditions must hold: The vector must be a generalist that parasitizes at least several host species, … predators have a strong potential to protect human health. Generalist or highly mobile predators seem likely to be most … at regulating rodent numbers at low levels, whereas specialist predators of limited mobility appear responsible …
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Michael Hanes
Michael Hanes Associate Research Specialisthanesm@caryinstitute.org Michael Hanes Placement Scientific Staff Research Support
ltumblety - 01/27/2023 - 11:09
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Casting your last environmental footprint
… increasingly popular choice at death; it acts like a large generalist decomposer. But cremation can release a number of …
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