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Cary to co-lead $4.8M study on how environmental conditions shape viral outbreaks in wild rodents
… will monitor how changing seasons, land use, and human behavior influence viral outbreaks in wild rodent populations, to identify hotspots with high potential … rodents, and to estimate their movement, range, and social contacts. To identify key drivers of virus …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… humans disrupted the environment and fueled an era of tick-borne diseases. Photo by Spongetastic69 July … Oggenfuss, opens one and reaches inside to reveal a small rodent, shivering, docile, its black eyes wide with fear. It … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Destroyed habitat creates the perfect conditions for coronavirus to emerge
… Threat Research suggests that outbreaks of animal-borne and other infectious diseases like Ebola, SARS, bird … diseases are linked to environmental change and human behavior. The disruption of pristine forests driven by … rats and dozens of species of bird, mammal, insect and rodent slaughtered and sold close to open refuse dumps and …
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Dr. Katherine Hayes
… with Dr. Winslow Hansen, exploring how emerging pests and pathogens in high-latitude environments may interact with … alter forest community, forest carbon and future fire behavior at the University of Colorado Denver where she …
ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:35
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Is the coronavirus pandemic related to meat production?
… Resistance Action Center. Josh Berson, independent social scientist who has held research appointments at the … any data, any evidence, any indication at all that it’s a foodborne illness or disease. Have food safety practices … people ask if this is going to drive changes in consumer behavior, I’m not sure. Do people look at [it] and see a …
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Victoria Kelly
… streamwater quality, solar radiation, phenology, and the behavior of water in the landscape. Data from the program … and monitoring of water at the landscape scale. Recent publications include Road Salt: The Problem, The Solution, …
ltumblety - 08/01/2023 - 09:43
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To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform
… and other urban hazards. Can greening efforts also address social injustices and inequality? A new analysis in … provide multiple benefits, the majority failed to address social injustice and inequity. Only 13% of plans defined … of the Urban Systems Lab. More details and other project publications can be found at www.giequity.org . …
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… pollution, cycle nutrients, and respond to pests and pathogens. His research achievements were matched with a … of academia to take on the threat of forest pests and pathogens. Tree-SMART Trade is an extraordinary legacy. …
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Animal reservoirs—where the next SARS-CoV-2 variant could arise
… different hosts, stockpiling mutations that can change its behavior, transmissibility, or ability to evade vaccines and … what level of testing we’re willing to invest in.” Airborne transmission during close contact, virions in wastewater, and rodents and other small animals that live in proximity to …
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How to stop the next pandemic
… if all kinds of animals were equally likely to transmit pathogens to us. If that were true, the more types of … our colleagues, have shown that biodiversity also keeps rodent abundance low in northeastern forests of the United … high, our risk of contracting Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases skyrockets . For Lyme disease, as for so …
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