The Ecosystems Center
"The Ecosystems Center was founded four decades ago to investigate the structure and functioning of ecological systems and to predict their response to changing environmental conditions. At that time the changing global carbon cycle was just becoming recognized as an urgent environmental issue and became one of the focal points for research at the Center."
--Anne Giblin, Ecosystems Center Director
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CapeCod.com - MBL Scientists Study Impact on Nitrate in Salt Marshes
WOODS HOLE – Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory have studied salt marshes and concluded that nitrate, a common coastal water pollutant, stimulates the decomposition of organic matter in...
Salt Marshes' Capacity to Store Carbon may be Threatened by Nitrogen Pollution
Deep in the waterlogged peat of salt marshes, carbon is stored at much greater rates than in land ecosystems, serving as an offset to climate change due to carbon dioxide (CO2) build-up in the...
Team Explores the Recovery, Resilience of a Stressed Salt Marsh
Day in and day out for 13 years, scientists slowly dripped fertilizers into a pristine section of salt marsh north of Boston. They were simulating, in a controlled experiment, the pollution that...
Scientists Urge Formation of National Network to Accelerate Climate Change Action
A non-federal network that will leverage science to manage climate change risks in the United States is urgently needed, recommends a report released today by a group of 36 climate researchers,...