New England's salt marshes store 10 million cars' worth of carbon—and add another 15,000 cars' worth every year
In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural carbon sinks: those primarily ...
SC's saltmarsh sparrows are going extinct. What do they tell us about a changing climate?
On an average, it takes up to 12 years to add a species to the federal Endangered Species list, a backlog activists say puts ...
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Sinking in Saltwater: Maine’s coastal marshes at risk as sea levels rise
Between 28 and 57 percent of the state’s coastal marshes could disappear by the end of the century, victims of a rising sea, ...
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A complex task: Carbon sequestration in marshes depends on many variables
The grass is tallest and most productive near ... that the variability in net carbon sequestration between different salt marshes is due to changes in differences in relative marsh elevation ...
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Population Increases of Planthoppers on Fertilized Salt-Marsh Cord Grass May Be Prevented by Grasshopper Feeding
https://doi.org/10.2307/3495244 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495244 We fertilized four separate areas of salt-marsh cord grass, Spartina alterniflora, in ...
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SAVING DIAMONDBACK TERRAPINS
With diamond-patterned shells and speckled skin, these stunning turtles are a keystone species in the salt marshes and mangroves where they live. They help keep these ecosystems healthy by eating ...
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New England's salt marshes store 10 million cars' worth of carbon -- and add another 15,000-worth every year
In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural 'carbon sinks:' those primarily terrestrial areas of the globe that absorb and sequester more carbon than they ...
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Carbon sequestration in marshes depends on many variables
which is typical of salt marshes along the southeast coast of North America. The marsh is covered with a monoculture of the grass Spartina alterniflora. The tides rise about twice daily to flood ...
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New England's salt marshes store 10 million cars' worth of carbon—and add another 15,000 cars' worth every year
They don't fill up." This is because wave by wave, tide by tide, storm by storm, new layers of carbon-trapping sediment are continually stored in the thick salt marsh grasses. Furthermore ...