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Karen R. Lips
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Ecology, global change, wildlife disease, tropical biology, science policy & diplomacy.

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Karen R. Lips is a professor of biology at University of Maryland, College Park. Lips' work in the 1990s eventually contributed to the identification of the chytrid fungus as the primary cause of frog decline worldwide. .. more

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Karen R. Lips @karenrlips.bsky.social · Dec 10
🧪🌎. Our short film "The Waiting" 🐸🎥🐸🎬 is been awarded as a Vimeo Staff Pick, so since yesterday it's publicly accessable on Vimeo! vimeo.com/1036802517?s...
The Waiting
Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and…
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Eric Riddell @ecophysiology.bsky.social · 8h
New paper by David Adams from the lab! Shifting elevation AND aspect could buffer lizards from climate warming. However, cool mountain slopes are less well represented in North America than warmer, more southern facing slopes.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Topographic variation shapes organismal responses across mountain landscapes - Nature Climate Change
The authors developed simulations to examine the role of topographic variation in mediating species response to climate change. They show that topographic variation can reduce energy expenditure by up...
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center.

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 2d
LAB WORKER DIES OF PNEUMONIC PLAGUE

A Russian laboratory worker who worked with pathogens at an anti-plague institute in Siberia has died 'of suspected pneumonic plague'.

It causes severe respiratory distress & can fatal within 18 to 24 hours of disease onset untreated - but can be treated.
UKHSA says risk of plague 'very low' after Russian laboratory worker 'dies of suspected pneumonic plague'
Quarantine measures have been put in place after a female researcher at an anti-plague institute died of "pneumonia of unknown" origin. Russian authorities have not confirmed her exact cause of death.
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Karen R. Lips @karenrlips.bsky.social · 2d
Excellent advice for those interested in science policy. #scipol horizonlaunchpad.substack.com/p/how-to-pre...
How to prepare for policy windows
When policy change becomes much easier
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d
People who hunt game and gather wild plants in both Tanzania and Bolivia share hundreds of species of bacteria in their guts that are rare or missing from industrialized societies. Here's my story about what this may mean for the history of the microbiome. Gift link: nyti.ms/3WdCvZZ
Was the Human Gut Healthier in Ancient Times? (Gift Article)
The microbiome isn’t what it used to be in many parts of the world. The shift of species may be affecting the well-being of people in industrialized countries.
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Karen R. Lips @karenrlips.bsky.social · 2d
How to mobilize the agile science needed in a crisis www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Codevelopment #Research #Funding
How to mobilize the agile science needed in a crisis
Two reports highlight the changes needed in academia to facilitate the fast, collaborative, responsive and inclusive research that aids global decision makers.
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Reposted by Karen R. Lips, Daijiang Li

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Trends in Ecology & Evolution @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social · 2d
Online now: Integrating long-term biodiversity change into biodiversity–ecosystem functioning studies
Integrating long-term biodiversity change into biodiversity–ecosystem functioning studies
Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) experiments seek to improve predictions of how biodiversity change affects ecosystem functioning. Bridging biodiversity change research with BEF experiments can accelerate these efforts. Diverse observational and experimental approaches for detecting and attributing biodiversity changes offer opportunities to re-analyze data from existing BEF experiments and design new ones. This integration helps us examine the effects of all biodiversity-change scenarios—species loss, gain, and turnover. We propose a mechanistic framework for experiments that manipulate both biodiversity and environmental conditions. The framework reveals how environment-driven biodiversity changes alter ecosystem functioning by identifying how species identity and interactions separately affect ecosystem functions. Integrating the fields of biodiversity change and BEF improves our understanding of the causes and functional consequences of biodiversity change.
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