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January 1, 2018
Pocosins, an Algonquin Indian word means swamp-on-a-hill. These evergreen shrub-bog ecosystems occur on the southeastern coastal plain of the USA from Virginia to north Florida and once covered more than one million hectares in North Carolina alone. A broa ...
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January 1, 2018
The Everglades is the largest subtropical wetland in the United States. It has been designated an International Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage Site, and a Wetland of International Importance, in recognition of its significance to all the people of the ...
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January 1, 2018
The Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq were once the largest wetland in the Middle East and home to an ancient civilization of Marsh Dwellers know as the Madan. By 2000, after massive drainage by the Iraqi government only 7% remained. This environmental genocide ...
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January 1, 2015
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is an exceptional and unique tool for the characterization of the size, shape, composition, and crystal structure of nanomaterials. The application of analytical TEM for the characterization of nanoparticles and nanop ...
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January 1, 2015
The soil organic phosphorus (P) fraction in wetlands is derived from both internal (detrital matter from vegetation) and external (particulate matter loading) sources. Accumulation of the organic P fraction is directly linked to organic matter accumulation ...
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January 1, 2015
Characterizing P species in wetland soils is quite complex and more challenging than measuring this element in upland terrestrial ecosystems due to the alternating oxidized and reduced conditions found in wetland soils, which greatly alter P valence states ...
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January 1, 2015
The diversity of wetland types on the landscape, combined with the complexity of plant communities that often exists from the edge of wetlands to the interior, requires multiple sampling approaches to adequately quantify vegetation patterns and determine p ...
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