And because this is one of the lowest tides this August, the water has drawn back like a curtain to expose an ecosystem ...

1982). Many types of human-caused disturbances have occurred in desert ecosystems (Burke 2001). Failed agricultural attempts, clearing land, road building, off-road vehicle use, water diversion ...

Disturbances are environmental changes ... For example, vegetated buffers are strips of vegetation that protect water quality in riparian ecosystems from urban or agricultural runoff.

High-elevation aquatic ecosystems are among the most vulnerable to climate change and other forms of disturbance, yet few long-term records ... named for a series of paternoster lakes that contribute ...

All major components of our environment - land, water, and air - have been ... material flows and biogeochemical cycles, disturbance regimes, and biodiversity loss have detrimental effects on the very ...

A new model suggests that timber production in Minnesota could decrease by half as windstorms intensify with climate change.