Thursday
04Mar2010
Entries in wetland (18)
Thursday
25Feb2010
Study finds post-restoration wetland succession highly variable
in 
Research Briefs | Feb 25, 2010
Research Briefs | Feb 25, 2010 A new study from researchers at the University of Illinois has looked at wetland restoration projects across the state and found that successional trends vary substantially from one site to another. The study findings have implications for the Clean Water Act and its ability to meet its mandate of enforcing no net-loss of wetland area or function in the United States...
Tuesday
16Feb2010
The impact of tidal flow restrictions on arid marshes
in Research Briefs | Feb 16, 2010
Research Briefs | Feb 16, 2010 What happens to a wetland when you construct a dyke and cut off tidal flow for over two decades? Silvia Ibarra-Obando and fellow researchers looked at the effects of 22 years worth of tidal exclusion on Estero de Punta Banda, an arid estuary 120 km south of the U.S.-Mexico border...
Friday
22Jan2010
The value of 'ignorance' in restoration
in Research Briefs | Jan 22, 2010
Research Briefs | Jan 22, 2010 We interview Dr. Eugene Turner, a leading wetland scientist at Louisiana State University. He argues that restoration practitioners need to abandon a knowledge-based world view and start embracing ignorance...
Tuesday
12Jan2010
Valuing ecosystem services from wetland restoration
in Research Briefs | Jan 12, 2010
Research Briefs | Jan 12, 2010 How much are ecosystem services from wetland restoration worth to society? Researchers try to put a dollar figure on three ecosystem services from a program restoring forested wetlands in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley...
Monday
21Dec2009
Quantifying the environmental benefits of wetland restoration
in Research Briefs | Dec 21, 2009
Research Briefs | Dec 21, 2009 A new study presents a model that could make the job of restoration planners much easier. Researchers created and tested a prototype for quantifying the amount that prospective restoration projects would reduce flooding and retain sediment and nutrients...
Wednesday
16Dec2009
Bogs self-restore after reduction in power plant emissions
in Research Briefs | Dec 16, 2009
Research Briefs | Dec 16, 2009 
Friday
04Dec2009
Mitigation transforms streams and wetlands at landscape level
in Research Briefs | Dec 4, 2009
Research Briefs | Dec 4, 2009 A new study indicates that mitigation programs may actually alter the overall distribution of streams and wetlands across the landscape and consequently modify their function with both negative and positive consequences...
Tuesday
01Dec2009
The effects of climate change on coastal ecosystems: interview with Chris Craft
in Research Briefs | Dec 1, 2009
Research Briefs | Dec 1, 2009 Chris Craft‘s lab at Indiana University has been grappling with effects of natural and anthropogenic stressors on biogeochemical cycles in coastal and inland wetlands. He presented his lab’s latest research at the recent Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation biennial conference...read more
Tuesday
17Nov2009
When abandoned farmland passively restores back to tidal wetlands
in Research Briefs | Nov 17, 2009
Research Briefs | Nov 17, 2009 
A new study looks at wetland recovery on formerly reclaimed agricultural lands once farming practices are abandoned and the levees are breached...