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The web of life: Natural science information on the Internet
As society has come to equate economic prosperity with the health of our living resources, national science policy has called for the development of a comprehensive digital knowledge base to support informed decision making and wise resource management. The Internet and World Wide Web demonstrate the earliest stages of this evolving virtual library of the natural world, offering an increasing arra
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Gail Clement
Hurricanes, coral reefs and rainforests: resistance, ruin and recovery in the Caribbean
The coexistence of hurricanes, coral reefs, and rainforests in the Caribbean demonstrates that highly structured ecosystems with great diversity can flourish in spite of recurring exposure to intense destructive energy. Coral reefs develop in response to wave energy and resist hurricanes largely by virtue of their structural strength. Limited fetch also protects some reefs from fully developed hur
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Ariel E. Lugo, Caroline S. Rogers, Scott W. Nixon
Local variability but landscape stability in coral reef communities following repeated hurricane impacts
Coral reef community structure has remained remarkably stable over a 10 yr period within a small protected marine area despite repeated hurricane impacts. Local community dynamics have been highly variable, however. Sites that were destroyed by disease in the 1970s are showing little or no recovery, while sites less than a kilometre away that were devastated by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 are recoverin
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John C. Bythell, Zandy M Hillis-Star, Caroline S. Rogers
Tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) occurs in Nicaragua, 800 km north of its previously known range
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Thomas Carr, Robert K. Bonde
Seed germination of two Everglades species, Cladium jamaicense and Typha domingensis
The germination requirements of Cladium jamaicense Crantz and Typha domingensis Pers. were studied under controlled conditions in the laboratory. Treatments included six temperature regimes, (constant temperatures of 15 20, 25, 30°C, and two fluctuating day : night temperature regimes of 25 : 10°C and 30 : 20°C), two light levels (14 : 10 h light : dark photoperiod and 24 h dark environment), two
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Bent Lorenzen, Hans Brix, Karen L. McKee, I.A. Mendelssohn, ShiLi Miao
Response of bird communities to natural disturbance
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Michael P. Guilfoyle, Wylie C. Barrow, Paul B. Hamel, James S. Wakely, Sammy L. King, T. J. Antrobus
Vertical accretion versus elevational adjustment in UK saltmarshes: An evaluation of alternative methodologies
Simultaneous measurements of vertical accretion from marker horizons and marsh-elevation change from sedimentation-erosion tables (SET) were made in selected marshes along the East Anglian coast of the UK in order to address the following objectives:to ascertain the validity of treating accretion measurements obtained within tidally dominated, minerogenic saltmarshes as equivalent to surface eleva
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Donald R. Cahoon, Jonathan R. French, Thomas Spencer, Denise Reed, Iris Möller
Development and implementation of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico characterization and data information management system and data transfer computer demonstration
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William R. Jones, Helena Schaefer
Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Program: Coastal Characterization: an overview and update
The U.S. Geological Surveys Biological Resources Division (BRD) mission is to provide leadership
in gathering, analyzing, and disseminating biological information as support for sound management
of the Nation's natural resources. Since becoming operational in October of 1996 through the
transfer of programs from various bureaus within the Department of the Interior, the BRD, in
cooperation with ot
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James B. Johnston, Lawrence R. Handley, William R. Jones, Steve Robb