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A low intensity fire in a pine forest in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park improves the health of the ecosystem.
Going back to the site the next day in Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) study on above-ground and below-ground biomass in mangrove ecosystems, part of Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP), Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Photo by Kate Evans/CIFOR
Related research publication on mangrove:
Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics
www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publ...
Carbon storage in mangrove and peatland ecosystems
www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publ...
For more information about CIFOR’s wetlands research visit: cifor.org/swamp
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For the first time an ecosystem survey with R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen will be conducted in the coastal area of Gabon. Identification and abundance of birds, whales, fish, phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthos will be conducted in the period from 9-23 May. In addition environmental parameters such as temperature, salinity, current, chlorophyll and oxygen will be measured. A reception was help onboard the vessel before the start of the cruise and the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Security, the governor of Port Gentil, and the FAO representative in Central Africa, were among the distinguished guest.
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Nevada’s Sen. Harry Reid discusses the history of inter-agency partnership to preserve Lake Tahoe at the 18th Annual Lake Tahoe Summit outside of South Lake Tahoe, California, Aug. 19, 2014. Federal, state, and local leaders were on hand to reinforce their commitment to ecological restoration and improving water quality in and around the lake. The Corps continues to partner with state and local agencies on a series of ecosystem restoration projects around the lake. Photo cropped for emphasis. (U.S. Army photo by Luke Burns/Released)
Tribal construction workers stand in front of the hexagonal greenhouse dome structure that will house the seeds for revegetation efforts.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
By far my favourite combination: an Ecosystem notebook + a black leather VadeMecum Pocket Cover.
The ecosystem notebook is exactly the same as the Moleskine. The cover fits like a glove.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists are among a team developing new ways to study the changing arctic ecosystem.
The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) will study the response to physical, ecological, and biogeochemical processes to atmosphere and climate change from the molecular to the landscape scale.
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For the first time an ecosystem survey with R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen will be conducted in the coastal area of Gabon. Identification and abundance of birds, whales, fish, phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthos will be conducted in the period from 9-23 May. In addition environmental parameters such as temperature, salinity, current, chlorophyll and oxygen will be measured. A reception was help onboard the vessel before the start of the cruise and the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Security, the governor of Port Gentil, and the FAO representative in Central Africa, were among the distinguished guest.
The Puget Sound Partnership Ecosystem Coordination Board met on Feb. 3 in Tumwater. Discussions included the EPA Lead Organization work plan development, 2011 target setting, and the draft charter for the Puget Sound coordinated ecosystem-monitoring program. In addition there were updates provided on the 2011 legislative session, the state budget, the Action Agenda revision process.
Rich Peterson, Ron Wesen, Teri King, Dow Contantine, Linda Berry-Mariast, Dan Wrye, Sam Anderson, Bill Dewey, Kathy Fletcher, Chris Davis, Jeanne Burbidge, Dave Somers, John Calhoun, David Troutt, Randy Kinley, Bob Turner, Col. Anthony Wright, Linda Anderson-Carnahan, Josh Baldi, Margen Carlson, Naki Stevens, Ginny Broadhurst, and Partnership staff Lynda Ransley
Morris Li Ming Shieh, President, China Guangfa Bank (CGB), People's Republic of China, at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China 11 September 2013. Photo by World Economic Forum
Back from another trip to the mountains, and off to the swamp in a few minutes. I'm WAY behind in processing photos since I've been outside more than inside (not complaining). As a break from plant pics, here are a couple from a hike to Catawba Falls, on the upper reaches of the Catawba River, in Pisgah National Forest near Old Fort, McDowell County, North Carolina.
My new ecosystem notebook. I needed a new pocket-sized book, and this little guy was a less expensive, more environmentally friendly version of a Moleskine. It also came in black, but I decided to go for some colour this time around.
On Nov. 15, members of the Pittsburgh District joined members of the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association in Frick Park to honor the memory of Kathy Anderson, a retired district project manager, by planting a tree along the stream she worked so tirelessly to restore.
Ms. Anderson spent more than 33 years with the district. She started as a park ranger, but is most remembered for her work as the Nine Mile Run project manager and her work with the watershed association.
During the tree planting, Ms. Anderson was remembered as a highly intelligent, very devoted worker who was instrumental to the restoration project at the watershed.
The Nine Mile Run drains an area of approximately six-square miles and flows through the boroughs of Wilkinsburg, Swissvale and Edgewood, and then flows through Frick Park. The watershed is one of the largest urban stream restorations in the United States and has served as a model watershed for others in Illinois and other places.
When Ms. Anderson started with the project, the stream was barren, but today the stream is home to more than 20 species of fish. The restoration work included steam channel reconfiguration, wetland reconstruction, native wildlife habitat enhancement and native tree, shrub, and wildflower plantings, all of which was overseen by Anderson.
The Nine Mile Run aquatic ecosystem restoration was completed by the district in July 2006.
Kathy Anderson passed June 25, 2012. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Carol E. Davis)
Ecosystème de paramo avec Frailejones (ici l'endémique Espeletia barclayana, famille Asteraceae). Sanctuaire de faune et flore d'Iguaque, endroit sacré. Site mythologique de la naissance de la culture précolombiennne Muisca, 3600 m anm, département de Boyaca, Colombie.
Ecosistema de páramo con Frailejones (aquí la endémica Espeletia barclayana, familia Asteraceae). Santuario de fauna y flora Iguaque, lugar sagrado. Sitio mitológico del nacimiento de la cultura precolombina Muisca, 3600 m snm, departamento de Boyaca, Colombia.
The Puget Sound Partnership Ecosystem Coordination Board met on Feb. 3 in Tumwater. Discussions included the EPA Lead Organization work plan development, 2011 target setting, and the draft charter for the Puget Sound coordinated ecosystem-monitoring program. In addition there were updates provided on the 2011 legislative session, the state budget, the Action Agenda revision process.
Rich Peterson, Ron Wesen, Teri King, Dow Contantine, Linda Berry-Mariast, Dan Wrye, Sam Anderson, Bill Dewey, Kathy Fletcher, Chris Davis, Jeanne Burbidge, Dave Somers, John Calhoun, David Troutt, Randy Kinley, Bob Turner, Col. Anthony Wright, Linda Anderson-Carnahan, Josh Baldi, Margen Carlson, Naki Stevens, Ginny Broadhurst, and Partnership staff Lynda Ransley
This corrugated fibro roofing material, made of a thin layer of asbestos-reinforced cement and mostly dating to Soviet times, seemed to be ubiquitous in the Baltics & Russia. This particular example has been around long enough to accumulate a rich ecosystem. Plants include a moss (unidentified; maybe Brachythecium?) and two different stonecrops (Sedum album, large reddish; Sedum sexangulare(?), small bright green).
Asbestos-containing materials may or may not release harmful asbestos fibers into the environment as they degrade, depending on the microscopic pattern of breakdown. Often, the matrix (in this case, Portland cement) will adhere to the fibers, continuing to encapsulate them and render them innocuous. So this might not be as bad as it looks. But, admittedly, it doesn't look good.
Deteriorating ecosystems are one of
the main drivers increasing the vulnerability of urban
and rural households. As such, protecting and
managing ecosystems is essential, as it contributes
both to the regulation of weather-related hazards,
by acting as buffers, as well as strengthening
livelihoods. But more often than not, forests are cut
down in the pursuit of development, such as in Hera,
Timor-Leste, 16 km from the capital Dili.
Photo by Martine Perret / UN Photo
Drought, bark beetles and wildfires are dramatically altering our Southwest forests. Past fire damage and bark beetle killed trees form a mosaic pattern of living and dead forest in this view looking east from the White Mountains. The cloud on the horizon is the smoke plume from the Whitewater-Baldy Complex wildfire (see link below), currently raging through the Gila National Forest in New Mexico.
- White Mountains, Apache National Forest, Arizona
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The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
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The Puget Sound Partnership Ecosystem Coordination Board met on Feb. 3 in Tumwater. Discussions included the EPA Lead Organization work plan development, 2011 target setting, and the draft charter for the Puget Sound coordinated ecosystem-monitoring program. In addition there were updates provided on the 2011 legislative session, the state budget, the Action Agenda revision process.
Rich Peterson, Ron Wesen, Teri King, Dow Contantine, Linda Berry-Mariast, Dan Wrye, Sam Anderson, Bill Dewey, Kathy Fletcher, Chris Davis, Jeanne Burbidge, Dave Somers, John Calhoun, David Troutt, Randy Kinley, Bob Turner, Col. Anthony Wright, Linda Anderson-Carnahan, Josh Baldi, Margen Carlson, Naki Stevens, Ginny Broadhurst, and Partnership staff Lynda Ransley
Caribou, North America’s wild reindeer, have lives apart from their famous role on Christmas Eve. Reindeer, of course, is another common name for caribou (Rangifer tarandus) a large, cold-adapted, herding herbivore related to deer, elk and moose.
If reindeer had red, glowing noses, they’d probably be a lot easier to study in the wild. To learn more about the biology behind these arctic antler-bearers, we only have to turn to our colleagues at the USGS Alaska Science Center, (alaska.usgs.gov) who conduct a wide variety of earth science and ecological science surveys throughout our northernmost state.
We asked USGS caribou (and large mammal) expert Layne Adams, Ph.D., about the lives of caribou for those other 364 days of the year. Adams has studied caribou in Alaska for more than 30 years, helping land managers understand the best way to manage this important species. Adams, a wildlife biologist at the Alaska Science Center, sat down last year and did an online chat with the Washington Post a few years ago.
Here are other Qs and As about reindeer that Dr. Adams answered:
Why are reindeer sometimes called caribou and caribou sometimes called reindeer?
“Reindeer” and “caribou” are two common names for the same species (Rangifer tarandus), which occurs throughout the circumpolar North.
“Reindeer” is the common name for Rangifer in Europe and Asia, whereas “caribou” is the North American name.
The name “caribou” is a French derivative of a Native American word that means snow shoveler, which is a reference to the fact that caribou are often pawing through the snow to find food underneath.
Read more here: www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/the-other-364-... (Photo by David Gustine,USGS)
Located in South Dakota, Badlands National Park consists of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires surrounded by a mixed-grass prairie ecosystem.The Badlands were formed by the geologic forces of deposition of sediments began 69 million years ago when an ancient sea stretched across what is now the Great Plains.
The lighter-colored Sharps Formation are 30 million years old followed by volcanic eruptions. The tannish brown Brule Formation was deposited 33 million years ago. Red layers found within the Brule Formation are fossil soils called paleosols. Upper layers were weathered into a yellow soil, called Yellow Mounds. The black Pierre Shale was deposited 70 million years ago.
The mounds are a fossil soil. and numerous important finds from the area have informed scientists about ancient animals like camels, horses, rhinoceroses, rabbits, lived and originally belong to South Dakota some 40 to 50 million years ago.
Goal of this FAO-led project is to adopt an integrated ecosystems approach for the management of land resources in the Kagera Basin that will generate local, national and global benefits including: restoration of degraded lands, carbon sequestration and climate change adaptation and mitigation, protection of international waters, agro-biodiversity conservation and sustainable use and improved agricultural production, leading to increased food security and improved rural livelihoods.
More: www.fao.org/nr/kagera/about-kagera/en/
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