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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD; also sampled domestic cat (1 WNV-negative juvenile), groundhog, Marmota monax (1 WNV-negative adult, 1 WNV-positive adult), eastern cottontail rabbit, Sylvilagus floridanus (1 WNV-negative adult).
The
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center of Edge-water, MD monitors crab behavior through shell-mounted biotelemetry devices, and shares its research in "Tales of the Blue Crab," told through school presentations, public shopping mall exhibits and on its web site <www.serc.si.edu>.
"Our findings show that elevated CO2 stimulates plant productivity, particularly below ground, thereby boosting marsh surface elevation," said Adam Langley, the research paper's lead author, who is the
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland.
The organizations tackling this task include USDA's ARS and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the Chesapeake Research Consortium, the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science (Horn Point Laboratory), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. This research is part of a larger USDA effort called "CEAP" (the Conservation Effects Assessment Project), which spans watersheds nationwide to assess the benefits and value of national conservation efforts.
Denise Breitherg of the
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., has witnessed a similar dichotomy of dead-zone winners and losers in the Chesapeake.
Department of Agriculture, was held February 5-7, 2003, at the
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland.
Dozens of scientists presented data at a workshop in early February at the
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. The crows and other abundant species that are sustaining great losses worry the biologists less than the species with only small populations.
Whitman Miller of the
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., the germ might have been introduced by visiting freighters.
Ruiz of the
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., and his colleagues sampled ballast water from 15 ships entering the Chesapeake Bay.
He described the flea's explosive North American invasion at an international conference Monday sponsored by the
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md.
Whigham and his colleagues at the
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., found a similar species-specific growth adaptation to carbon dioxide enrichment in a salt marsh.