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  • A tale of two understories: how mosses and climate are shaping the fate of nitrogen in the boreal

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A tale of two understories: how mosses and climate are shaping the fate of nitrogen in the boreal

Posted by Heather Tate on September 4, 2020

Victor Leshyk illustration for New PhytologistMosses and their microbial partners are important players in fertilizing the boreal forests that make up nearly a third of all Earth’s forests. But climate may be changing mosses’ role in how these forests access nutrients, according to a new study led by the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (Ecoss) at Northern Arizona University… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences

As ice recedes in Antarctica, new microbial research frontier opens for NAU, Texas Tech team

Posted by Heather Tate on April 1, 2020

Purcell_MarrIcePiedmont-photo-credit-Kelly-McMillanWarming global temperatures are changing life on every continent on Earth, including Antarctica, where more microbes are moving in to territory previously covered by ice. How these microbes respond to warming offers us clues about what future Antarctica will look like and who will thrive there. Microbial ecologist and PhD candidate Alicia Purcell from the Center for Ecosystem… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society

NAU scientists help chart a path to understand how Arctic vegetation is changing

Posted by Heather Tate on January 31, 2020

Scott Goetz
Professor Scott Goetz and assistant research professor Logan Berner (not pictured) are involved in an effort that brings together remote sensing scientists and field ecologists to provide a better understanding of how vegetation is changing across the Arctic

As Arctic tundra has warmed more than twice as fast as the rest of the… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

NAU scientists, national partners win $3.3 million to study microbes’ role in a changing world

Posted by Heather Tate on January 28, 2020

Illustration ofIf the fate of carbon is a test that planet Earth is taking right now, one of the answer keys is likely to be found in soil, where microorganisms—which account for nearly 15 percent of global biomass, by some estimates—eat, store and respire carbon and other nutrients. As Earth warms, how these microbes change the way they live will have potentially big consequences for where the carbon goes.

Now, a team led… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society

NAU researchers seek microbial link between two common and costly respiratory diseases

Posted by Heather Tate on September 26, 2019

Microbiome image Asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS)—sinus inflammation that lasts for at least three months—are serious and costly diseases, and both are on the rise. According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, CRS affects up to 16 percent of the U.S. adult population and eats up a staggering 5 percent of the country’s healthcare budget each year. Asthma,… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

Flinn Foundation funds NAU microbiologist’s study to address health disparities through novel therapeutic for asthma

Posted by Heather Tate on March 19, 2019

Emily Cope working in PMI lab.

According to the National Institutes for Health, asthma is a chronic lung disease affecting more than 300 million people worldwide—25 million in the U.S. alone, including 7 million children. Because it inflames and narrows the airways, the disease significantly affects quality of life, causing recurring periods of wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath and coughing.

The incidence of asthma… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

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