Salinity

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A keystone mutualism underpins resilience of a coastal ecosystem to drought. 
  • A suite of microplate reader-based colorimetric methods to quantify ammonium, nitrate, orthophosphate and silicate concentrations for aquatic nutrient monitoring. 
  • An Ultrahigh Precision, High-Frequency Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Analyzer Based on Dual Isotope Dilution and Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy. 
  • Aquaporins, and not changes in root structure, provide new insights into physiological responses to drought, flooding, and salinity. 
  • Cell identity mediates the response of Arabidopsis roots to abiotic stress. 
  • Changes in hydrology and salinity accompanying a century of agricultural conversion in Argentina. 
  • Drinking water salinity is associated with hypertension and hyperdilute urine among Daasanach pastoralists in Northern Kenya. 
  • Ecological reproductive isolation of coast and inland races of Mimulus guttatus. 
  • Effects of temperature, salinity, and sediment organic carbon on methylmercury bioaccumulation in an estuarine amphipod. 
  • Heavy metal distribution and uptake by maize in a mudflat soil amended by vermicompost derived from sewage sludge. 
  • Larval biology of the crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii (Gould): a synthesis. 
  • Maximizing leaf carbon gain in varying saline conditions: An optimization model with dynamic mesophyll conductance. 
  • Nitrogen enrichment suppresses other environmental drivers and homogenizes salt marsh leaf microbiome. 
  • Overexpression of CaDSR6 increases tolerance to drought and salt stresses in transgenic Arabidopsis plants. 
  • Physical stress modifies top-down and bottom-up forcing on plant growth and reproduction in a coastal ecosystem. 
  • Protein glycosylation as an adaptive response in Archaea: growth at different salt concentrations leads to alterations in Haloferax volcanii S-layer glycoprotein N-glycosylation. 
  • Salinity of deep groundwater in California: Water quantity, quality, and protection. 
  • Sewage sludge as an initial fertility driver for rapid improvement of mudflat salt-soils. 
  • Silver toxicity across salinity gradients: the role of dissolved silver chloride species (AgCl x ) in Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) and medaka (Oryzias latipes) early life-stage toxicity. 
  • Succession, regression and loss: does evidence of saltwater exposure explain recent changes in the tree communities of North Carolina's Coastal Plain? 
  • The effects of salinity and temperature on the transparency of the grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio. 
  • The physiological ecology of the supratidal amphipod Talorchestia longicornis. 
  • Two distinct N-glycosylation pathways process the Haloferax volcanii S-layer glycoprotein upon changes in environmental salinity. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Vengosh, Avner, Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Environmental Quality, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative