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EPA's Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds [PDF]

This agency portal provides background information on habitats from streams and rivers, lakes, wetlands and estuaries to rocky coasts, sandy beaches, coral reefs and ocean environments, their importance, monitoring and assessment programs, regulations ...

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Science-based restoration monitoring of coastal habitats, Volume Two: Tools for monitoring coastal habitats [PDF]

, 2005
Healthy coastal habitats are not only important ecologically; they also support healthy coastal communities and improve the quality of people’s lives. Despite their many benefits and values, coastal habitats have been systematically modified, degraded ...
Burrows, Felicity M., Gayaldo, Perry F., McTigue, Teresa A., Merkey, David H., Salz, Ronald J., Thayer, Gordon W.   +5 more
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Abiotic variables drive different aspects of fish community trait variation and species richness across the continental United States

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Trait distributions provide insight into how niches overlap within a broader trait space. By integrating individual‐level trait observations from different communities, we can explore how facets of trait dimensionality vary across environmental conditions.
Alicia McGrew, Crysta Gantz, Brigid Wills, Benjamin Baiser, Sydne Record, Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Angela L. Strecker   +6 more
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Deteriorating habitat suitability and connectivity of waterbirds in the Bohai Sea Rim: Consequences of land use transformation

Global Ecology and Conservation
Wetlands in the Bohai Sea Rim play an indispensable role in maintaining the stability of waterbird populations on the East Asian-Australian flyway. However, motivated by economic development and urban expansion, coastal wetlands in this region have been ...
Shaoxia Xia, Huanxin Lv, Houlang Duan, Xiubo Yu   +3 more
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Monitoring dynamics of the Yalu River Estuary coastal wetland from 1990 to 2021 through the remote sensing approach

Frontiers in Marine Science
The Yalu River Estuary (YRE) coastal wetland, as a vital part of the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem, provides habitats for hundreds of thousands of wintering waterfowl and millions of migratory shorebirds along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway ...
Jinxia Zhao, Xinhui Zhang, Jing Wang, Bin Guo, Zhiwei Zhang   +4 more
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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Activities for Wetland Functions (title provided or enhanced by cataloger) [PDF]

These activities were designed to enhance the third chapter of a module about wetlands that covers flood and erosion control, fish and wildlife habitat, food webs, wetlands "supermarket", and recreation and aesthetics.

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Consistent Choice of Prey Source Habitat Across Diverse Landscapes by a Selective Insectivorous Bat

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
After analyzing the diet of the greater horseshoe bats in three distinct colonies, we identified significant spatial and temporal differences, particularly noting a stronger reliance on riparian habitats in Mediterranean areas. The species exhibits great ecological adaptability with strong plasticity in prey source habitats, shifting preferences among ...
Miren Aldasoro, Oihane Diaz de Cerio, Danilo Russo, Nerea Vallejo, Lander Olasagasti, Inazio Garin, Urtzi Goiti, Joxerra Aihartza   +7 more
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Research on Phosphorus Removal in Artificial Wetlands by Plants and Their Photosynthesis

Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
Urban rainfall runoff pollution has become a major reason for water eutrophication problem in the process of urbanization in China, while phosphorus is a significant restrictive factor that influences primary productivity of freshwater system.
Quan Quan, Bing Shen, Qian Zhang, Muhammad Aqeel Ashraf   +3 more
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