Sentences with phrase «great lakes ecosystems»

«Other invasive species like zebra and quagga mussels have [already] dramatically shifted the structure and energy flow of many of the Great Lakes ecosystems.»

In a related Policy Forum, Lubchenco and Sutley (p. 1485) propose an approach to safeguard U.S. ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems from the increasingly numerous and intense stresses that human activities are causing.

The study is an integral piece to a suite of programs at the aquarium dedicated to protecting and preserving Great Lakes ecosystems.

The workshop is sponsored by New York Sea Grant (NYSG) with additional funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Community Climate Adaptation Initiative Program and the Environmental Protection Fund under the authority of the New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Act.

Zebra mussels, although injurious to parts of the Great Lakes ecosystem, have actually benefited some species.

The voracious bottom - feeders can strip entire river ecosystems of zooplankton, the basic food of native fish species — and now they seem poised to breach the Great Lakes ecosystem.

«Our study shows that Lake Erie contains a patchwork of low and high - density fish populations,» said Paris Collingsworth, a Great Lakes Ecosystem Specialist with Sea Grant.

A new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature says ports and trade hotspots in the United States need to do more to detect and respond to foreign invaders like the quagga.Quaggas have transformed the Great Lakes ecosystem, outcompeting native species, harming fish populations, clogging up drinking water intake pipes and helping fuel toxic algal blooms.

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The site is also the subject of an anticipated $ 7.7 million Great Lakes Fishery and Ecosystem Restoration project, focusing on the shoreline and spearheaded by the Army Corps of Engineers, which expects to fund $ 5 million of the work along with nearly $ 2.7 million from the Park District, officials said.

Our efforts are supported by the USEPA's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), the US Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes Fishery and Ecosystem Restoration (GLFER) program and the IDNR's Illinois Coastal Management Program (ICMP).

$ 480,575 has been awarded from the Great Lakes Basin Small Grants Program; an additional $ 200,000 will be available 2017 to support coastal resiliency projects: · Natural infrastructure / living shoreline protection techniques · Coastal wetland monitoring and restoration activities · Green infrastructure to improve coastal resiliency · Community stewardship and education initiatives · Coastal property / ecosystem vulnerability analyses · Economic and social analyses of the value of resiliency measures

«Knowing the distribution of threats and benefits — the linking of ecosystem service maps with threat maps — is a powerful and under - utilized tool to help us better manage the Great Lakes and other highly valued ecosystems,» Allan said.

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NEON will monitor how large - scale problems such as climate change, pollution and urban sprawl affect ecosystems as diverse as the Great Lakes and Hawaii.

«The Lake Eyre Basin is crucial to Australia's biodiversity — at least 65 animal species and 13 plant species are found in its iconic and threatened Mound Spring ecosystems, and other threatened species such as the Greater Bilby, Yellow - Footed Rock Wallaby also live there.

Invasive species, urbanization and other threats have wreaked havoc on the Great Lakes, but this book still finds some glimmers of hope in the scientists who are making headway in resuscitating the ecosystem (SN: 3/18/17, p. 30).

The project was funded by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative's SOAR (Synthesis, Observations and Response) Project, the U-M Water Center, the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research and NOAA.

BAD NEIGHBORS Zebra mussels (shown) and other invasive species are just one of many threats to the Great Lakes» ecosystems, as detailed in a new book.

Models were developed by scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), the University of Michigan, LimnoTech, the University of Michigan Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL).

Rochelle Sturtevant, an ecologist who studies the Great Lakes for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, hopes Leprieur's study can serve as a cautionary tale as developing nations join the global market and undertake activities that threaten to introduce exotic species into their relatively pristine ecosystems.

The American landscape is a catalogue of noxious weeds and invasive pests that have disrupted native ecosystems: Japanese kudzu in the South, African tamarisk in the Southwest, Amazonian water hyacinth and Burmese pythons spreading through the Everglades, Russian zebra mussels choking the Great Lakes, Asian carp invading the Mississippi River system, and European brown rats everywhere.

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The Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park offers: Different weather systems, different ecosystems, submarine canyons, sandy beaches, dune forests, wetlands, grasslands, forests, lakes and Savannas.

The Great Lakes are the world's largest group of freshwater bodies, hosting a large number of species within their waters and on their shores, but also sustaining life over large areas of North - America thanks to their tributaries» impact on land ecosystems.