Publications by authors named "Helen M Forgione"
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- - Cities are expanding tree canopy cover to enhance urban environments by addressing issues like heat islands, air quality, and habitat conservation, mainly through planting native trees and removing non-native species in reforestation efforts.
- - City-scale assessments often show a dominance of non-native trees, leading to debates about urban forests, while site-level studies reveal that many parks have predominantly native biodiversity.
- - In a study across 1,124 plots in New York City's natural area forests, it was found that native species make up 82% of forest canopy, although this proportion declines in midstory and understory layers, indicating potential future challenges for maintaining native dominance in urban forests.
Numerous therapeutically relevant small molecules have been identified from the screening of natural products (NPs) produced by environmental bacteria. These discovery efforts have principally focused on culturing bacteria from natural environments rich in biodiversity. We sought to assess the biosynthetic capacity of urban soil environments using a phylogenetic analysis of conserved NP biosynthetic genes amplified directly from DNA isolated from New York City park soils.
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