|
WITH SALT MARSHES DYING, WE'RE IN FOR TROUBLE
|
Coastal-zone experts have been scurrying faster than shallow-
water crabs lately. Long-term weather forecasters are predicting
hurricanes, causing south-of-Boston coastal communities to ponder
their sea walls, piers, culverts, and similar features, many of them
old and crumbling, and prompting insurance companies to sharpen
pencils. And now the Coastal Hazards Commission suddenly faces a
nasty new and possibly intractable crisis involving changes happening
so fast its data collection may pro...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
|
Teaching about Salt Marshes
Green Teacher
; Though maligned in the past, salt marshes are the natural filters and nurseries of the intertidal zone and offer rich opportunities for learning. AT THE MENTION OF GRASSLANDS, most of us think of grasshoppers and undulating prairies rather than horseshoe crabs and high tides. But grasslands are
|
|
Rising seas put salt marshes at risk
New Haven Register
; Connecticut did nothing as the state became increasingly vulnerable to slowly rising oceans. Residents apparently failed to notice a rise of about 1 foot since 1900, or did not care as salt marshes disappeared beneath Long Island Sound. Highways and buildings sprouted up to the shore, preventing
|
|
Salt marshes: they offer diversity of habitat.(Marine Biodiversity)(Cover Story)
Oceanus
; Salt marshes look remarkably uniform: Low and flat, they are a luscious green in the spring and summer, tan to brown in fall and winter. The marshes have been studied intensively, in part because their higher plants and animals exhibit a remarkable lack of diversity. Though they therefore seem
|
|
PHILLIPS IN, ON THE OUTDOORS
The Washington Post
; Angus Phillips went looking for clapper railbirds in the salt marshes of Chincoteague, Va.
|
|
Linkages Between Salt Marshes and Other Nekton Habitats in Delaware Bay, USA
Reviews in Fisheries Science
; Although the importance of salt marsh habitats for fishes and crabs has been accepted for nearly a half century, the linkages between marshes and adjacent estuarine habitats have been ill-defined. In this synoptic study (n > 19,000 samples, 14 species, 10 million individuals), we provide fresh
|
