Nutrients Causing Salt Marshes to Disintegrate

A long-term, large-scale study by Ecosystems Center scientists of salt marsh landscapes in an undeveloped coastline section of the Plum Island Estuary in Massachusetts has shown that nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus can cause salt-marsh loss. Center scientists Linda Deegan, David Johnson and Bruce Peterson and four other scientists are authors of an article [...]

ESA Welcomes First Cohort of Fellows

Jerry Melillo and Gus Shaver of the Ecosystems Center have been named Fellows of  the Ecological Society of America (ESA). They are in the first group to be named to the new Fellows program by the 10,000-member society, the world's largest organization of professional ecologists.  A total of 40 Fellows were named. At the same [...]