On any given day between 2016 and 2019, Heather Stewart could be found snorkeling in between mangroves in the Bocas del Toro archipelago along Panama's Caribbean coast. For years she visited these ...
As climate change alters coastlines, mangroves are migrating inland and poleward — transforming ecosystems, disrupting ...
In the face of declining fisheries, threatened reef habitat, and changing climatic conditions, non-native mangroves may provide, rather than impede, zooplankton habitat availability in novel locations ...
Mangroves are special as they’re able to tolerate high amounts of salt and live along coasts, also protecting them against ...
Rising sea levels along coastlines not only threaten populations, but also pose a danger to agricultural crops, which may be ...
Mangrove is the collective name given to unrelated plants around the world that have filled a niche because they can tolerate salt or brackish water. Mangroves don’t require saltwater to grow. However ...
Fox 4’s Austin Schargorodski reports on FGCU and Island Coast High students that teamed up on Fort Myers Beach to help ...
To better understand important dynamics at play in flood-prone coastal areas, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists working on simulations of Earth’s carbon and nutrient cycles paid a visit to ...
SARASOTA – In the mid-1990s, when David Wolff was a student at the University of South Florida, he interned for the Marine Habitat Foundation, a Lee County-based nonprofit that hoped to develop a ...
In a new paper published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, environmental science and management professor Elise Granek and lead author Casey Lewis, PSU alumna, report the findings of a census of ...