The diamondback terrapin is the only estuarine turtle native to North America. In the Emydidae family, terrapins in the USA inhabit brackish coastal waters from Massachusetts to Texas (IUCN2018; Roosenburg and Kennedy2018). There are seven subspecies based on morphometric and geographic variations, ...
Estuaries experience high and variable turbidity more often than most freshwater and marine environments. Suspended particles may contain compounds that inhibit PCR (Matheson et al.2010) and can limit water filtration volumes as filters become clogged with particulate matter; eDNA may also bind to part...
ostracodes) indicate that freshwater aquatic habitats were created in the Palm Cave from 9750 ± 210 (core 14) to 8370 ± 30 (core 3) Cal yrs BP when a fresh to oligohaline meteoric lens first flooded the cave. The modern marine anchialine ecosystem in Palm Cave could not have ...
Only 800years ago, New Zealand became the last major land mass to be settled by humans, leading to environmental degradation and precipitating a decline in indigenous fauna. Such ecological downgrading can alter ecosystem processes and drive down the capacity for remnant ecosystems to withstand the ...
Most renewable power technologies are weather dependent. Wind farms can only operate when there's a breeze, and solar power plants rely on sunlight. Researchers at EPFL are working on a method to capture an energy source that's constantly available at ri
others (< 25%; 13 species), with only one species in between. Such a food web is consistent with the contemporary Delta resembling many freshwater lentic systems in community composition and ecosystem function (Moyle et al.2012). This is generally similar to some freshwater lakes, where some ...
Drawing largely on information for barrier estuaries from south-western Australia, it is emphasized that the productive fringing marshes may contain much of the plant biomass and nutrients. Submerged angiosperms and macroalgae are very productive in the shallows, and phytoplankton, of trivial biomass, ...
An inverse estuary is an estuary in which freshwater input is less than the losses due to evaporation; such estuaries contain hyperhaline water (e.g., Laguna Madra in Texas; [1]). Inverse estuaries were also defined by Pritchard [2] as the ones where salinity increased with distance to ...
They undergo highly dynamic changes and have variable environments because of alternating inputs of freshwater and seawater. Estuaries contain higher concentrations of inorganic and organic nutrients compared with most aquatic ecosystems [1]. Organisms that live in estuaries must adapt to the dynamic ...
Additionally, large gradient variations induced by the salinity front, where saline and freshwater meet (Figure 2c,d), enhance the process of particle flocculation and setting, ultimately leading to accumulation [57,58]. As a result, these river proximal sites are not only the depocenter for ...