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The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill temporarily worsened existing manmade problems in Louisiana's salt marshes such as erosion, but there may be cause for optimism, according to a new study. A study appearing online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found the 2010 spill killed off salt marsh plants 15 to 30 feet from the shoreline and this plant die off resulted in a more-than-doubled rate of erosion along the marsh edge and subsequent permanent marsh habitat...
Florida alligators travel upstream and downstream between marshes and the coastBy Cheryl Dybas, NSF'Gators. They're everywhere in freshwater areas of the Southeastern U.S.Now, scientists have found American alligators also swim into the brackish waters of estuaries, places where rivers meet the sea, out into the coastal zone and back again.These "commuter" alligators connect very different habitats, creating links between marine, estuarine and freshwater food webs."Alligators...
SHANGHAI, June 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (the "Company") (NYSE: JKS), a fast-growing, vertically-integrated solar power product manufacturer with low-cost operations based in China, today announced that the company's solar panels are now under warranty with PowerGuard Speciality Insurance Services, a firm specializing in unique insurance and risk management solutions for the wind and solar energy industries. Renowned insurance broker Marsh facilitated the...
Researchers measuring impacts of short- and long-term exposure in extensive Gulf Coast marshesAs oil and dispersants wash ashore in coastal Louisiana salt marshes, what will their effects be on these sensitive ecosystems?The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a rapid response grant to scientist Eugene Turner of Louisiana State University and colleagues to measure the impacts on Gulf Coast salt marshes.The researchers will track short-term (at the current time, and again at three...
 Global warming may exact a toll on salt marshes in New England, but new research shows that one key constituent of marshes may be especially endangered. Pannes are waterlogged, low-oxygen zones of salt marshes. Despite the stresses associated with global warming, pannes are "plant diversity hotspots," according to Keryn Gedan, a graduate student and salt marsh expert at Brown University. At least a dozen species of plants known as forbs inhabit these natural depressions, Gedan said....
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A salt marsh, also otherwise known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone that lies between the land and the open salt water or brackish water that is routinely flooded by the tides. It’s dominated by dense stands of salt-tolerant plants, for example, herbs, grasses, or low shrubs. These plants originate from all around the globe and are important to the stability of the salt marsh in trapping and binding sediments. Salt marshes...
Symbol: NIIS Group: Lichen Family: Ramalinaceae Growth Habit: Lichenous Native Status: NA N Classification: Kingdom Fungi – Fungi Division Ascomycota – Sac fungi Class Ascomycetes Order Lecanorales Family Ramalinaceae Genus Niebla Rundel & Bowler – niebla lichen Species Niebla isidiascens Bowler, Marsh, T. Nash & Riefner
