Sentences with phrase «many coastal marshes»

«This grant has made it possible for us to restore important coastal marsh habitat, which faces a number of major threats, including invasive species and climate change.»

(CNN)- The White House has ordered BP to fully fund Louisiana's plan to dredge up walls of sand to protect coastal marshes from the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announced Wednesday.

«There are lots of human benefits that coastal marshes provide for us so we want to understand how our activities are damaging marshes and what we can do to help them.»

Yet, as was the case with the other scientists, during his meetings with the staff of New York delegation members the conversations turned to his work measuring the impact of human activities on New York's coastal marshes.

Nutria can destroy coastal marshes and bald cypress swamps by eating the roots and developing plants, wiping out vegetation.

Although evidence of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill may not be visually obvious today, crude oil can still be found in Louisiana coastal marshes.

In the coastal marshes of New England, this has been happening between two sparrows — Saltmarsh Sparrow and Nelson's Sparrow.

«It may kill a year's production of fish, but if it hits the coastal marshes, it could be there for a decade.»

To prevent future problems, Ford and his colleagues recommend ongoing monitoring of hybridization in the region and better protection of coastal marsh habitat.

Currently, the two species have little opportunity to interact in the region during the breeding season; Mottled Ducks nest in coastal marshes, while most Mallards are migratory and breed outside the region.

In the coastal marshes of New England, this has been happening between two sparrows — the Saltmarsh Sparrow and Nelson's Sparrow.

Dr David Blockley of SAERI has been collaborating with scientists in Ireland and the UK on new research that shows that plastic litter can smother marine life, dramatically reducing the numbers of organisms — and compromising the ecosystem services they provide — in coastal marshes.

Morro Bay Estuary, one of the largest unspoiled coastal marshes in the state, is a major stopping point in bird migration and attracts over 200 species of native and migrating birds — waterfowl, shorebirds, birds of prey, and warblers.

Soledad Valley, which includes the notable coastal marsh, Los Peñasquitos Lagoon, [2] is cut by a coastal stream which discharges into the Pacific Ocean at Torrey Pines State Beach.

It forages in grasslands bordering riparian areas such as irrigation right of ways, coastal marshes, streams, or lakes.

The beach offers miles of undeveloped shoreline as well as nearby coastal marshes, rivers, and bays for even more opportunities to explore.

Walk along old historic pathways, where you can discover coastal marshes, medieval villages, Romanesque churches and hermitages and of course dormant volcanoes.

Some of it comes through in John's great series of paintings that derive from wetlands, northern coastal marshes and Arnhemland.

He somehow finds space in his post to describe the scope and vital importance of the oil industry and the beauty of the coastal marshes.

Accelerating rates of sea - level rise linked to climate change pose a major threat to coastal marshes and the vital carbon capturing they perform.

«As more dams are built and as land use and agricultural practices in coastal regions continue to rapidly change, we're seeing a sharp drop in inorganic sediment delivery to many coastal marshes worldwide.

For Louisiana in particular, a key area of concern is coastal marshes.

Record - breaking drought is leading to some coastal marshes being saltier than the ocean, and toxic red tide is washing along the shore, threatening whooping cranes.

The spit of land lines the Gulf outside the state's coastal marshes.

Water reed is traditionally associated with the East Anglian wetlands and coastal marshes.

It depicts the coastal marshes of the south east and looks exactly like the area where I live, which gives the painting significance and meaning to me.

Not exact matches

Conservation of healthy ecosystem and biological diversity is a priority in this exclusive environment composed of coastal lagoons, marshes and paddy fields.

In Washington, good early hunting spots are the tideland areas and adjoining farmlands in the Skagit Flats, the potholes and marshes near Spokane and the coastal bays of Grays Harbor and Willapa.

By providing a setting for the salt marsh to migrate, Rough Meadows is projected to play a key role in assisting this important coastal ecosystem threatened by sea level rise, while also providing tangible public health and safety benefits by storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years ahead.

Robert received a PhD in marine ecology from Boston University and has carried out research on salt marshes, seagrass meadows, and other coastal habitats.

The sanctuary, which is located in the Great Marsh, a 20,000 - acre ecosystem that extends from Cape Ann to New Hampshire, consists of extensive salt marshes, fields, and coastal forests.

Mass Audubon successfully conserves additional land all the time — from stands of old growth forest in the Berkshires to coastal habitats on the Cape and islands to the precious salt marsh of the North Shore — and every type of habitat in between.

Creation of the wildlife sanctuary, situated between scenic Route 1A and Plum Island Sound, protects vulnerable coastal land from development and ensures the public will be able to explore and enjoy one of the most beautiful salt marsh and adjoining upland habitats in the state.

With the help participating students, we have been collecting data on vegetation as it relates to salt marshes in coastal Massachusetts since 1996.

The shooting community manage significant chunks of designated coastal wetland in addition to extensive tracts of inland marshes and water features which have no legal protection.

Liu's latest efforts in «paleotempestology» focused on several lakes and marshes in coastal Louisiana, Alabama, and the Florida panhandle.

The Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) has captured major attention from paleoseismologists due to evidence from several large (magnitude 8 - 9) earthquakes preserved in coastal salt marshes.

These environments, along with other forms of coastal ecosystems such as tidal marshes and sea grasses, have been given the name «blue carbon» to differentiate them from the «green» carbon of other forests, where carbon is absorbed above ground in trees.

The world's coastal ecosystems — areas such as tidal marshes and mangrove forests — have the potential to store and sequester large amounts of carbon, collectively known as blue carbon.

Likewise, coastal ecosystems such as mangroves and tidal marshes are proving to be a more cost - effective and ecologically sound alternative to buffering storms than conventional coastal engineering solutions.

On this unseasonably warm March day, 160 students on a field trip from the Wicomico County gifted and talented program learned how climate change, sea level rise, and salt marsh migration will affect Maryland's coastal areas.

«Marshes, reefs, beaches can enhance coastal resilience.»

Recent research suggests that healthy, intact coastal wetland ecosystems such as mangrove forests, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows are particularly good at drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it for hundreds to thousands of years.

At particular risk are coastal salt marshes.

«Normal weather drives salt marsh erosion: Waves from moderate storms, rather than violent events such as hurricanes, inflict the most loss on coastal wetlands.»

In addition to its importance in the water cycle, as a potentially exploitable water resource and a source of water for brackish coastal environments such as marshes and coastal lagoons, it also can serve as an important source of dissolved chemical compounds such as nutrients and trace and toxic metals.

Salt marshes perform a long list of ecological services: they buffer coastal erosion; filter runoff; reduce the risk of flooding; provide habitat for juvenile fish, crabs and shrimp; and store excess carbon, keeping it from re-entering Earth's atmosphere.

Essex has lost a quarter of its coastal salt marshes, or more than 15 square kilometres, to wave erosion in the past 15 years.

Invasive plant species can be a source of valuable ecosystem functions where native coastal habitats such as salt marshes and oyster reefs have severely declined, a new study by scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina - Wilmington finds.

In coastal protection, it can mean, for instance, artificially building beaches that absorb the power of storm waves, or encouraging the natural forces that raise and extend a coastline, including salt marsh, by ensuring a supply of sediment.