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How a thumb-sized climate migrant with a giant crab claw is disrupting the Northeast’s Great Marsh ecosystem
While ecosystems will adapt as climate migrants arrive, they will likely never be the same. But it’s not always bad news when climate migrants show up. When mangroves replace marshes in the ...
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Protective salt marshes along coasts are in danger across the globe but it's not too late to act, researchers say
Preserving and restoring salt marshes is essential not only for wildlife protection and natural flood mitigation, but also for the numerous ecosystem services—such as carbon storage, bird ...
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SC's saltmarsh sparrows are going extinct. What do they tell us about a changing climate?
Low marshes flood once a day, with the coming of the daily high tide. The salt marsh ecosystem is not stagnant. It grows, shrinks, moves and evolves with the changing climate. But the Earth is ...
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Everglades of the North: The Story of the Grand Kankakee Marsh
THE STORY OF THE GRAND KANKAKEE MARSH is a missing piece of American ecology that compels the viewer to consider the vital role wetlands and prairies play in our ecosystem, and delivers the ...