Prairies Will Be Hit Hard By Global Warming
...kinds of migratory birds take shelter in temporary marshes thatform on farmland early in the year, Malcolm explains. As the climate warms,these marshes will dry up earlier and farmers will be tempted to use these dryconditions to cultivate their fields...Georgia Scientists Study Salt Marsh To Understand Global Warming
...ects chemical and nutrient release." Sapelo's salt marshes provide an ideal model system in which to studybio... of North America from Nova Scotia toFlorida, salt marshes are not only extensive, he said, but alsoextremely productive. Here, great expanses of Spartina, or ...New Long-Term Ecological Research Site Funded For Plum Island Sound Ecosystems Study
... of habitats, including open water, tidalcreekbank marshes and marsh ponds, explains scientist Chuck Hopkinson of theMarine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, principalinvestigator on the Plum Island LTER project. "Getting a large-scale view of anestuary is important. On a small scale, a s......ding remote sensing and extracting core samples of marshes and tributary creeks in the Patuxent River basin t...soras make a migration stopover in the fresh-tidal marshes of the Chesapeake Bay. The rails favored historic stopover site in the region has been the wild ric...Oil Spill Cleanup Product Made From Sugar Byproduct
...of the difficulty of recovering such material from marshes andsimilar wetlands, it had to be disposable," Breitenbeck says. "This product canbe applied to vegetated wetlands and promote oil disappearance without having tobe recovered later." As he was looking for a material that had a natural abso...Estuaries Vital To The Productivity Of Southeastern U.S. Fisheries
...hat organic material emanating from estuarine salt marshes also findsits way to the offshore waters, where it provides nutrients to animals that livethere, Crowder added. "The out-welling hypothesis provides a lot of impetus for the protectionof salt marsh habitats because those not only support t...Salt marshes are among the most biologically interestingplaces ...the cycles of life and death. For herbivores, salt marshes are a garden ofdelights, a salad bar with savory selections. Herbivores can, however, be picky eate...USGS fire research in the southeast
...m the coastal prairie of Texasand Louisiana to the marshes and pinelands of Florida, many native species haveadapted to a natural regime of frequent wildfire caused by lightning strikes. Inaddition, fires set by Native Americans and European settlers have influencedvegetation patterns in the Southeast for ce...As Hurricane Floyd moves up the Atlantic Coast . . . .
...grasses, animal waste) flowedfrom swamps and tidal marshes into rivers after hurricanes Hugo, Bonnie, andFran. This past spring, the USGS began a two-year study at the Cumberland IslandNational Seashore, near the Georgia/Florida line, to study water-qualityconditions and aquatic communities. Hurricanes and ...USGS scientists tracking environmental damage from Floyd
...rs with the natural flushing of the extensivetidal marshes without additional nutrient loads. To better document and understand the water chemistry of this type of event,USGS scientists will be collecting water-quality samples on a weekly orsemi-weekly basis and analyze them for nutrients, bacteria, pestici...New Cosumnes River research partnership announced
... sandhill cranes reside in the floodplain forests, marshes and farm fields. In riverside forests, beavers harvest branches from tall cottonwood trees and scrub jays gather acorns from rare old groves of valley oaks. The river and its surrounding floodplains support dozens of kinds of native fish, including t...Illinois waterways, waterfowl detailed in new book
...Mississippi and Illinois rivers and in the state's marshes and swamps. Among the waterfowl covered are the mallard, American black duck, blue- and green-winged teal, northern shoveler, wood duck, lesser scaup, ruddy duck, hooded merganser, Canada goose and the lesser snow goose. The book and the abbreviate...Past climate change effects on mammals may mirror global warming impact
...e area was much wetter and cooler, and dotted with marshes and shallow lakes, according to Grayson. These bodies of water dried up when the climate became hotter and more arid in the middle Holocene and few of them ever came back. The Great Basin is the 200,000-square-mile region between the Sierra Nevada ...UNC-CH biologists identify new order of marine fungi
...needlerush alone. About 60 percent of N.C. coastal marshes are composed of that plant, which is a kind of grass. "Normally, you find a maximum of about eight species on a host plant, and so finding more than 10 times that amount is really remarkable," Kohlmeyer said. Besides their potential as cancer...Unusual mussels may use whale bones en route to hot sea-floor vents
... to be only distantly related to mussels from salt marshes and the rocky intertidal zone. How and when mussels first colonized vents has remained a mystery. By examining the DNA signatures of many different types of mussels, the authors found that the tiny mussels found on whale falls and wood fragments are ...New science resources available from the ESA
...d healthy, but a closer look will reveal that many marshes are overrun by Brazilian pepper (Schinus terebinthifolius), a South American tree that has taken over 280,000 hectares of south Florida. The Ecological Society's fifth edition of Issues in Ecology describes how some foreign plants and animals, like ...NSF awards $4.2 Million grants to three coastal sites for long-term ecological research
...ordering the mainland and Sapelo Island, and tidal marshes throughout the coastal area. Says Phil Taylor, director of NSF's biological oceanography program, which co-funded the three new coastal LTER sites, "The impacts of human activities are an important component of the long-term variation researchers wi...Scientists combine chemistry and bioremediation to clean cadmium from soil
...mer BNL researcher Pramod Sharma from coastal salt marshes on Shelter Island in New York. Through its normal metabolic process, the bacterium converts dissolved cadmium thiosulfate to cadmium sulfide, an insoluble form, which precipitates out of the solution. Alternatively, the bacteria could also be injecte...Neuroscientist studies brains of bizarre-looking mammals
...tures because they are the only moles that live in marshes and wetlands. here have been a lot of different ideas about the function of this unusual nose ornament, but it was not until Catania studied this star-shaped proboscis as part of his doctoral thesis at the University of California, San Diego that the...Unusual source of ocean water contamination may rewrite environmental textbooks
...e and water flow rates, some 4.6 million saltwater marshes in the continental United States could be affected similarly, Grant said. Research to that effect could throw those favoring the expansion of wildlife habitats for a loop -- to say nothing of the environmental scientists -- he suggested. "One scenari...