Toxic Algae Culprit in Whale Graveyard
Part of the whale graveyard (abcnews.go.com). Discovered in Chile near a coastal highway in 2010, the whale graveyard was something of a mystery to scientists. What had caused the mammals’…
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Quality, not Quantity, Important to Preservation
Tidal Marshes, Sapelo Island (destination360.com) A new study from Duke University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston says that the preservation of “key species” is vital to the…
Efficient Algae Management in Today’s Regulatory World
By West M. Bishop and Ben Willis. SePRO Research and Technology Campus, SePRO Corporation From the The Western Aquatic Plant Management Society Newsletter, Fall 2013. As the regulatory…
Invasive Red Algae on Otters
"Fischotter, Lutra Lutra" by Bernard Landgraf - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - here . Gena Bentall first noticed red algae attaching itself to otters' coats in the fall…
New Science on Prevalence of Harmful Algal Blooms
This maps show all of the lakes tested and those in which samples contained cylindrospermopsin toxins. Credit: usgs.gov An assessment conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Environmental…
Variable Resources May Favor Invasives
Elodea (E. canadensis). Credit: Kristian Peters, wikimedia.org A study done in north-eastern France offers support to the theory that invasive plants are often better-adapted to survive and…