Salt marshes, excellent reservoirs of carbon, are living ecosystems with vegetation and microscopic organisms that live, breathe, poop and die in the marsh mud. “This is a place where you could get ...

Louisiana wetlands represent a landscape shaped by constant interaction between water, sediment, and vegetation”— ...

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It is a premise in ecology that undisturbed ecosystems are relatively stable, and hence that sudden changes in ecosystem are likely to result from external, mostly human influences. Johan van de ...

Pickleweed grows noticeably taller and denser in the fenced area from which crabs are excluded. (Photo by K. Beheshti) Coastal marshes are vulnerable to erosion caused by rising seas, pounding waves, ...

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is currently working with The Great Lakes Construction Co. to remediate the legacy contamination at Mentor Marsh. Also known as the Osborne Salt Fill, the ...

"This purple crab problem is very much like other ecological catastrophes that we've seen where one organism in a food web gets super abundant or out of control from loss of predation pressure, or ...