Sentences with phrase «of tidal marshes»

Vacation rentals are widely available in Garden City Beach, another favorite with amazing scenery of tidal marshes and rich wildlife.

It killed about 50,000 seabirds and eight sea otters, and polluted 100,000 square kilometres of tidal marshes.

Among other things, the company is a corporate partner of Save the Bay, a non-profit organization in San Francisco dedicated to restoring 100,000 acres of tidal marshes.

The authors are members of the Saltmarsh Habitat & Avian Research Program, a collaboration of academic, government, and nonprofit researchers focused on the conservation of tidal marsh birds.

Not exact matches

The expansive coastscape of salt marsh, tidal creeks, and upland woods also fills a crucial gap in a mosaic of more than 8,000 protected acres within the Great Marsh, which extends from Gloucester to the New Hampshire Seacoast.

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.

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.

This result is particularly relevant given the threats that saltmarsh nesting birds currently face,» says Chris Elphick of the University of Connecticut, an expert on tidal marsh birds who was not involved with the study.

Throughout the experiment, they measured the effects of each species mix on three important salt marsh functions: overall grass growth (productivity); the rate of dead plant removal (decomposition); and how fast tidal or storm surge water percolated through the marsh (filtration).

A detailed field guide for «Methods for Assessing Carbon Stocks and Emissions Factors in Mangroves, Tidal marshes and Seagrasses» is currently available in our Resources section and the standardized methods outlined within allows consistent collection of comparable data in these habitats around the world.

Of the coastal blue carbon stored within mangroves, tidal marshes, and seagrass meadows, 50 — 99 % is located in the soils below ground.

Tidal marshes are being lost at a rate of 1 - 2 % per year.

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).

Mangroves, tidal salt marshes, and seagrasses sequester and store significant amounts of coastal blue carbon from the atmosphere and ocean and are now recognized for their role in mitigating climate change.

Langebaan Lagoon extends in a finger of water away from Saldanha Bay, its 16 kilometres controlled by tidal currents, tailing off into salt marshes and a cluster of salt pans, rich with water bird life.

With 1,600 acres, including four miles of pristine beach, tidal salt marshes and hammock preserves, Anastasia State Park has most everything a beachgoer might be looking for: sunbathing, surfing, swimming, fishing, sailboats, paddle boarding, and sailboarding.

Encompassing approximately 73,000 acres of salt marsh and mangrove tidal wetlands, oyster bars, estuarine lagoons, upland habitat and offshore seas.

Salt Marsh View offers unrivalled views over the tidal marshes of the Knysna estuary, to be enjoyed in easy, relaxed privacy.

A secluded barrier island located on 1,350 acres between the sugary beaches of the Atlantic and the tidal marshes of the Intracoastal Waterway, Amelia Island resorts offer championship golf, pristine beaches, nature programs, and restaurants.

Salt marsh tidal creeks at barrier islands like Capers Island Heritage Preserve, crabbing and fishing, and sunset dolphin watching are all part of tours.

To take just one example: A photograph of a Mount Desert Island tidal marsh shows a stillness beyond imagining — but not beyond seeing, as Porter shows.

A mid-Holocene high stand is something that's been debated for quite a while in my neck of the woods as it would say a lot about barrier island and tidal marsh formation and migration.

Digging deep into tidal marshes one discovers their important role as recorders of major environmental change in the Hudson Valley.

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Coastal wetlands, such as mangroves, tidal flats and salt marshes, along with seagrass beds sequester large amounts of carbon within their plants and especially in the soil.

This scenic land contains more than half a mile of shoreline along two significant wetlands — the tidal marsh in Vanderburgh Cove and a globally rare tidal swamp — as well as Fallsburg Creek, a Hudson River tributary.

This IUCN report notes: «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 of thousands of years.»

To modify the effects of rising sea levels, we must reestablish the fringe marshes and unblock those tidal marshes that have been degraded by poorly planned roadways and rail lines.

pipeline dredge reconstruction of fringe marshes....6 x 12 precast concrete culverts to unblock tidal creeks... and use of the amphibious Rolligon Ditcher Spreader to recreate tidal creeks and OMWM (killifish reservoirs)

When mangroves, seagrasses or tidal marshes are destroyed, they not only lose their capacity to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, but also emit carbon that is estimated to have accumulated over thousands of years.

And about reestablishment of fringe marshes, unblocking tidal creeks and what the rest of coastal USA is doing about all this.

And through the use of hydraulic rotary cutter head pipeline dredges and Rolligon amphibious ditcher - spreaders, use, instead, these navigation channel dredge spoils to reconstruct the fringe marshes and tidal creeks of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

While the colors shown in the legend border describe variations of loam (sandy loam, silt loam), sand, adobe, riverwash, tidal marsh, clay, and even peat, there are 50 soil classifications in L.A. County alone.

As a final note, the fertile crescent was basically a marsh and a tidal mudflat in the mouth of two big rivers.

It's at SummerCamp Beach, a 762 - acre coastal vacation retreat 46 miles south of Tallahassee, set along four miles of Gulf of Mexico shoreline, woodlands, tidal marshes and conservation land.