Birds, butterflies, bacteria same law of biology appears to apply
...g these functions differently. For example, a salt marsh in Rhode Island may behave differently in terms of...Bay from nitrogen pollution than a similar looking marsh in San Francisco Bay." Both studies received funding from the National Science Foundation. The bac...Sinking coastlines may precede large subduction zone quakes
...sink and become brackish or saltwater marshes. One marsh in Alaska apparently sank about half a foot starti... along the Pacific coast. Similarly, a core from a marsh in Oregon showed evidence of four large quakes over the past 3,000 years, each preceded by subsidenc...Self-organization and vegetation collapse in salt marsh ecosystems
...at first, plant-sediment feedback buffers the salt marsh from the strong physical gradient that characteriz... consequence of this process, the edge of the salt marsh and the adjacent intertidal flat becomes increasingly steep and vulnerable to wave attack. Disturban...Bayou blues: Working to save the US from the worst potential oil, gas and fishing crisis
...to stop rapid deterioration and to start restoring marsh land in Louisiana's southern coastal wetlands-whic...hon, LA - expedition scientists are looking at how marsh subsidence (the shrinking down and compacting of soil) along with levee construction, grazing by nut...Restoration efforts in Iraq's degraded marshes to be described in D.C. news briefing and symposium
...mount of destruction and heartened by evidence for marsh recovery. He also found some Marsh Arabs have begun returning to their old ways, while others are newly incorporating agriculture into their more-traditional lifestyles of fishing, water buffalo herding and reed gathering.......ry, salt-encrusted desert, as opposed to a vibrant marsh fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. "It was largely dominated by open water, and vegetated by plants like our common reed plant. You've probably seen these big, tall grass-like plants in ditches along the roadside here in Ontario. It's a form of ...Scientists find both damage and promise for renewal in devastated Iraqi marshlands
... could serve as a source for revitalization of the marsh ecology. "The high quality of water, the existing ...an Gulf, that were high enough to impede return of marsh plant life upon reflooding. They also found abnormal buildups of selenium, a naturally occurring tox...Nitrogen fertilization of soil puts rare plant species at risk, nationwide study determines
...s, abandoned agricultural fields, and coastal salt marsh communities. While the researchers found that rare plants were vulnerable to nitrogen fertilization, they determined that other plant traits also put even the most abundant plant species at risk: short height (short plants receive less sunlight in th...Marshes tell story of medieval drought, little ice age, and European settlers near NYC
...f the area's climate. Sediment layers from a tidal marsh in the Hudson River Estuary have preserved pollen ...uring this drought period, a core drilled into the marsh bed showed large influxes of inorganic soil particles, a sign of erosion. Plant roots hold soil in p...Restoring the 'Garden of Eden'
...st Asia, the marshes are home to the native Ma'dan marsh dwellers, as well as numerous species of migrating... Farhan's presentation, "The role of hydrology in marsh restoration in southern Iraq," will discuss a program designed to help manage Iraq's water resources...Boston University biologist honored for leadership in estuarine education
...uct research involving tidal, deep ocean, and salt marsh environments. Faculty also maintain field research programs worldwide, including the central Pacific, the Caribbean, the interior of Mexico as well as the Gulf of California off the Baja Peninsula, the Great Barrier Reef, and the Red Sea....Coastal retreat in face of rising sea levels found to be influenced by wildfires
...ticed dead trees with fire scars amid the invading marsh grasses. That led him to consult U.S. Fish and Wil...d pines had been burned in May 2004, he found only marsh grasses growing and no signs of regenerating pine seedlings. He hypothesized that, in the absence o...Microfossils show promise in prospecting climate history
...intervening times, the settling of sediment in the marsh lays down other protective layers. In order to "read" the layers of marsh sediment and to distinguish between those laid down by normal weather cycles, Hippensteel uses foram...GROWing the next generation of water recycling plants
... other plant species include the yellow flag iris, marsh marigold, and the common reed. They are chosen to be resistant to the pollutants they absorb. By planting more than one species, the engineers guard against an unusually dirty batch of water exceeding a particular species' tolerance level. Should one...Research: Snails were overlooked contributors to marsh destruction
...nails likely killed off thousands of acres of salt marsh in the Southeast in recent years. Periwinkle snail...hich lasted from 1999 to 2001, weakened and killed marsh grasses such as cordgrass, or Spartina alterniflora, so extensively that the snails moved from finis...Surprising killer of southeastern salt marshes: Common sea snails
...ry role in the unprecedented disappearance of salt marsh in the southeastern states, according to new resea...d studies, the work challenges six decades of salt marsh science. Ecologists have long thought that stressed soil too much salt, not enough oxygen was the ...Massive marsh planting to begin in coastal Alabama and Mississippi
An unprecedented marsh gardening project, spanning two states and utilizi... seeks to establish new, or rehabilitate existing, marsh sites. In 2002, the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program's Comprehensive Conservation and Management ...How healthy is that marsh? Biologists count parasites
Is that salt marsh healthy? To answer this, Sea Grant biologists are cracking open common marsh snails and counting parasitic worms. Their claim: the more parasites, the healthier the marsh. While...Iraq's marshes show progress toward recovery
...ed are functioning at levels close to those in one marsh that remained undrained. The fast recovery of plant production, overall good water quality, and rapid restoration of most wetland functions seem to indicate that the recovery of ecosystem function is well under way. Richardson and Hussain are not com......ter supplies to part of the last remaining natural marsh on its border with Iraq, reportedly so it can sell...f Iraq's government to commit sufficient water for marsh restoration and to designate specific areas as national wetland reserves," Richardson and Hussain wr...