Sentences with phrase «marshes by»

But Paul Hatchwell, an environment consultant, wrote recently in a report for the World Wide Fund for Nature that both the Sizewell site and the Bradwell nuclear power plant in Essex, built on marshes by the Blackwater estuary, are «poorly defended».

There, the invasive green crab Carcinus maenas is helping to restore the marsh by driving away the Sesarma reticulatum crabs that have been depleting the marsh grasses.

When the tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground off France's Brittany coast in 1978, clean - up teams attempted to save the Ile Grande salt marsh by removing oiled sediments.

In the marsh by the woodland, the biologists discovered that the successful males had more than twice as many mates as those in the agricultural marsh.

Not exact matches

So when he heard that Saddam Hussein was punishing a group of so - called «Marsh Arabs» — rebels who made their living along the wetland's islands — by cutting off their water supply and draining the marshes, he went back to Iraq to do something about it.

But we can not interpret this passage by saying that what really happened was a narrow escape in a dark marsh.

So to the Exchange, and thence home to dinner with my brother, and in the afternoon to Westminster hall, and there found Mrs. Lane, and by agreement we met at the Parliament stairs (in my way down to the boat who should meet us but my lady Jemimah, who saw me lead her but said nothing to me of her, though I ought to speak to her to see whether she would take notice of it or no) and off to Stangate and so to the King's Head at Lambeth marsh, and had variety of meats and drinks, but I did so towse her and handled her, but could get nothing more from her though I was very near it; but as wanton and bucksome as she is she dares not adventure upon the business, in which I very much commend and like her.

One of 5 salt islands on the Louisiana coast, Avery Island stands at 163 feet above mean sea level and is surrounded by low - lying swamps and marshes.

On Sundays young London travels out of town to the Hackney Marshes, where 111 football pitches lie side by side, each of them the scene of a small war, clean but hard, in fidelity to the English sporting ethos.

GOLF — GRAHAM MARSH of Australia won the $ 225,000 World Match Play championship at Virginia Water, England, 5 and 3 over Ray Floyd, who played the final round accompanied by four guards after receiving an anonymous death threat.

Coastal Ecologist, and Mass Audubon's Salt Marsh Science Project co-founder, Dr. Robert Buchsbaum talks about about birds and vegetation on salt marshes in this 6.32 minute video filmed by Rick Hydren, as part of his «Danger in the Reeds» video series.

This curriculum for middle and high school students includes classroom activities, identification sheets and a dichotomous key for identifying salt marsh plants, and data sheets for salt marsh field trips utilizing lessons developed by Kristen Grant and the salt marsh science protocols developed by Dr. Robert Buchsbaum and Dr. David Burdick.

The charging station is powered by the sanctuary's solar panels, so it helps that Joppa Flats is located within a large, mostly treeless salt marsh habitat.

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 aheaBy 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 aheaby sea level rise, while also providing tangible public health and safety benefits by storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years aheaby storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years ahead.

As part of Mass Audubon's Salt Marsh Science Project, scientists and students have been measuring the salinity (salt content) of water at different depths to learn whether Phragmites distribution within the salt marsh is controlled by ground water (water deep below the ground surface that is the source of well and spring water) or interstitial salinity (water just below the ground surface from the tide).

We are investigating whether Phragmites are spreading in the salt marsh, how fast Phragmites are spreading, and whether the height and spread rate is impacted by different salinity (salt content) levels.

Much of the property is wetland, primarily wooded swamps dominated by red maples and marshes.

After the second world war, it suffered its share of «marsh cowboys» and as a result the sporting rights held by the Crown Estates were taken over by the Nature Conservancy Council, now the CCW, when the area was designated as a National Nature Reserve in 1968.

The lands that were lost were also breeding grounds for marine mammals, brown pelicans, turtles, and fish, as well as migratory species such as redhead ducks.Overall, about 20 % of the local marshes were permanently overrun by water as a result of the storm.

It was a marsh soil, marked by the remains of a plant he recognized: seaside arrowgrass.

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

The researchers performed a series of experiments before, during and after the drought to test how pressures from heavy grazing by crabs — the main natural enemy of plants in the protected marshes — affected resilience to and recovery from the drought.

Because they're located in the transition between land and ocean — the terrestrial - aquatic interface — the challenge for salt marshes is that their biogeochemistry is also influenced by tides, which bring matter and energy in as they rise.

Normally, sediment deposited by the Mississippi River helps build up the delta, allowing the marshes to stay above water.

By the end of the experiment, the marsh crabs had eaten an order of magnitude less cordgrass than they usually did.

Few funds generated by the Deepwater Horizon disaster have been allocated as yet to return the Gulf of Mexico's marshes and ecosystems to a healthier state, leading to «random acts of restoration»

Monks of the Camaldolese branch of the Benedictine order lived here, surrounded by a tall wall and moat, at the edge of marshes and oak woods, according to the town's official history.

Bleaker than the landscape is the infrastructure for some 80,000 people clinging to an agrarian lifestyle, often along drainage canals within regions that used to be covered by marshes.

Joy Zedler carefully planned the three experimental wetlands at the University of Wisconsin — Madison's Arboretum to be identical: parallel marshes 295 feet long and 15 feet wide, carved by engineers into the green landscape.

The preferred general term by researchers, however, whether talking swamp, marsh or mire, is wetlands.

But even those who work or play in the marshes were misled for decades by the gradual changes in the landscape.

Pilings that held weekend camps surrounded by thick marshes a decade ago stand in open water, hundreds of yards from the nearest land — mute testimony to a vanishing culture.

The swan's majestic looks have earned it protected status in some parts of the U.S., but the swans damage marshes and shallow - water habitats by tearing up vegetation.

«The marshes were a cultivated landscape, shaped by selective harvest, hunting, fishing, and burning to promote the natural resources that the Marsh Arabs used — much like the precolonial landscape was cultivated by native peoples here in California,» said author Michelle Stevens, a professor California State University in Sacramento.

A recent study of the east coast of England by Sir William Halcrow & Partners, a firm of engineering consultants, found around 200 kilometres where the low - water mark is advancing inland by a metre or more each year, including most of the Holderness and Lincolnshire coastlines, substantial parts of north Norfolk and long stretches of the Essex marshes.

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.

One, written by Andrew St Joseph, environmental consultant and resident of the Essex marshes, recommends that 30 kilometres of Essex sea wall, defending 10 square kilometres of land, should no longer be maintained.

Across the world's oceans, seas and coasts, tens of millions of tonnes of it are released by microbes that live near plankton and marine plants, including seaweeds and some salt - marsh grasses.

In 1991, English Nature, the government's main conservation agency, began a small but potentially important experiment in «managed retreat» of the coastline at Northey Island, a small patch of salt marsh and grazing pasture owned by the National Trust in Essex's Blackwater estuary.

One is geomorphological: erosion provides the sediment that builds up the natural coastal defences of other areas of coastline, by forming marshes or beaches, shingle bars or mud flats.

He begins by highlighting the evidence of North Carolina's salt marshes because they are a storyline from the past — a period that state lawmakers seem to be emphasizing over future predictions developed by computer models.

By the mid-1980s, following another great period of loss after World War II when army engineers drained huge swaths of formerly impenetrable marshes and swamps, the continental U.S. had only 103 million wetland acres remaining.

Compared to upstream marshes, which are typically nutrient - poor, the Shark River swamp region is nutrient - rich thanks to phosphorous provided by seawater.

Dominated by brackish marsh, this area was badly damaged by saltwater intrusion and erosion following the dredging of the MRGO.

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They include sea level rise, which is pushing saltwater into freshwater marshes and causing their peat - rich soils to collapse, and drought caused in part by the diversion of freshwater into South Florida's booming metro areas.

The coastal ecosystems of mangroves, seagrass meadows and tidal marshes mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and oceans at significantly higher rates, per unit area, than terrestrial forests (Figure 1).

The carbon captured by living organisms in oceans is stored in the form of biomass and sediments from mangroves, salt marshes, sea grasses and potentially algae.»

David Lagomasino, a remote sensing scientist at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center and co-investigator on the project, told Earther that the southwestern toe of Everglades National Park and Ten Thousand Islands — a vast network of coastal mangrove islets and marshes near Everglades City — were hit hardest by the storm.