Our pick for 2009 Eventing Radio Upcoming Rider Ashley Adams shares a bit about her past and what she has planned for the future. We are also joined by Gill Rolton who is fighting to save the Adelaide CCI4* and Kate Green with a report on the Tattersalls World Cup Qualifier. Listen in…
Eventing Radio Episode 26 – 2009 Upcoming Rider Ashley Adams:
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USEA Hall of Fame inductee and well-known rider and trainer, Denny Emerson is promoting an idea to encourage riders to compete in a long format event. Read more about Denny’s idea…
What a fun interview with our 2009 Eventing Radio Upcoming Rider Ashley Adams. We will get updates throughout the year from Ashley and her mount Vaunted. We will have a dedicated page built for Ashley shortly to follow her progress throughout the year.
Tags: Three Day Eventing, USEA, World Cup Qualifier
A new University of Florida study shows mammals change their dietary niches based on climate-driven environmental changes, contradicting a common assumption that species maintain their niches despite global warming.
Led by Florida Museum of Natural History vertebrate paleontologist Larisa DeSantis, researchers examined fossil teeth from mammals at two sites representing different climates in Florida: a glacial period about 1.9 million years ago and a warmer, interglacial period about 1.3 million years ago. The researchers found that interglacial warming resulted in dramatic changes to the diets of animal groups at both sites.
The two sites in the study, both on Florida’s Gulf Coast, have been excavated quite extensively, DeSantis said. During glacial periods, lower sea levels nearly doubled Florida’s width, compared with interglacial periods. But because of Florida’s low latitude, no ice sheets were present during the glacial period. Despite the lack of glaciers in Florida, the two sites show dramatic ecological changes occurred between the two periods.
The research examined carbon and oxygen isotopes within tooth enamel to understand the diets of medium to large mammals, including pronghorn, deer, llamas, peccaries, tapirs, horses, mastodons, mammoths and gomphotheres, a group of extinct elephant-like animals.
This fossilized horse (Equus) tooth shows where a series of enamel samples have been drilled to help identify seasonal fluctuations in the animal’s diet. This horse lived about 1.9 million years ago during a glacial period in Florida. (Credit: Mary Warrick/University of Florida)
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Tags: climate-driven environmental changes, equus, Florida, global warming
