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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
… remote sensing, and simulation models to target forest management that reduces risk of catastrophic wildfires. … quickly spread fire across the landscape. What role has human behavior played in the rise in wildfires? In 1910, … a compressed timescale, and it will have implications for biodiversity, carbon storage, and even water availability. …
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… nitrogen budgets. He was among the first to document that dry atmospheric deposition - from particles in the air - … into account the different sensitivities of ecosystems and biodiversity that received this pollution when it fell back … a brilliant path as both a scientist and a high quality human being. Scott Ollinger Speaking on behalf of …
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Q&A with Winslow Hansen: Wildfire in the western US
… for people and ecosystems, and how fire modeling can guide management. How do wildfires start? Wildfires start … and fuel (like dry leaves, branches, and dead grass) on the landscape. In the western US, higher temperatures and … fuel density, and ignition sources – like lightning and human error – to tell us how fire regimes and forests may …
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Dr. Winslow D. Hansen
… that cause climate warming, support much of the planet’s biodiversity, and provide essential services such as fuel, … at Grand Teton National Park to evaluate whether different management strategies might reduce wildfire risk to people … Before that, she was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Landscape Conservation Initiative at Northern Arizona …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… it spread with such tenacity? The short answer: heedless human meddling with Mother Earth. We pull at the strings of … as well. And they have found that the presence in the landscape of a diverse community of midsize predators, … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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New study identifies the best areas for rewilding European bison
… Biodiversity , … Land-use & Human Impacts , … years ago due to rapid warming of the climate and its effects on bison habitat. After that, the activities of a …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… be having on wild bird populations. While the virus’s effects were readily apparent in urban areas, where birds … in lower right corners show the yearly number of reported human infections in each region. Around the same time … numbers and the diseases they carry across the urban landscape, paving the way for more effective mosquito …
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Team Cary: Elsa Anderson
… preserves. The students were trained in environmental management, with activities like brush clearing, trail … on a Fulbright Scholarship to study questions about how human activities shape plant communities through time. Based … Going into my PhD, I was really interested in understanding biodiversity patterns in vacant lots. There's all this green …
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Ask the scientists: GLEON
… came to the US to pursue my master’s in water resource management. Someday, I hope my work can help solve water … around the world. My current research is looking at effects of climate and land use change on lake temperature … the opportunity to see how our beautiful, dynamic, human-made reservoirs in Virginia extend our understanding …
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Dr. Evan Gora
… of plant death. Plants play crucial roles in global biodiversity and nutrient cycling. However, plant mortality … and satellite sensors to scale these findings to the landscape and beyond. Much of this research focuses on the effects of a rarely studied phenomenon – lightning – and …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:10