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A new nationwide project aims to monitor the environment of the U.S. and enable comparisons of large-scale problems and variables such as climate change, pollution and sprawl
November 21, 2011 | 2
Sensors atop this tower in the Harvard Forest—a 1,400-hectare reserve in Massachusetts—have provided the longest-term measure ever collected by scientists in the U.S....[More]
Researchers surveying Guanica State Forest in Puerto Rico as a site for a future NEON observation tower found vegetation shaped by strong winds (pictured) and mangrove forests, primarily atop a slowly dissolving subsurface of limestone....[More]
A stream and surrounding wetlands at the University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center will allow researchers to better understand how water flow helps transport nutrients and carbon....[More]
What impact does the eradication of invasive species, such as the kudzu pictured here in Tennessee, have on an ecosystem? The NEON tower in this region will attempt to answer that question as well as monitor other environmental challenges....[More]
Data collected in the Talladega National Forest in Alabama will be part of NEON. Observations from this location will enable research on the impacts of climate change on the ecological domain, and on how water distribution and its movement affect ecology....[More]
Creosote bushes dominate the Santa Rita Experimental Range in Arizona, which has already been under study by scientists for a century. The site will allow NEON to focus on how the rapid development of Tucson affects desert wildlands....[More]
The Dalton Highway and Trans-Alaska Pipeline head into the Brooks Range of Alaska, not far from the Institute of Arctic Biology's Toolik Field Station where NEON will examine the impacts of climate change, permafrost and water pollution on the local ecosystems....[More]
On the slopes of Mauna Kea volcano on the island of Hawaii, the largest forest redoubt of native plant and animal species in the entire island chain persists....[More]
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Add CommentAre there twenty separate biomes in the U.S., as the article says? I thought they were fewer (Arctic, Taiga, Deciduous Forest, Desert, Savannah, Grassland). Are marine biomes being included? How many are in Hawaii? Thanks!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThey are probably not looking at the n. boreal forest in Alaska. It just got severely burned from uv light. The ozone is damaged to the point of plants dying, and it didn't even make the news. If it dies, it will be 703 Pg of carbon to be released as co2 when it decomposes, only a few yrs away. It will send it to around 800 ppm, and its dying now. Last yr almost everything died, or burned. I drove the alcan and it was burned to the middle of Canada. Gardeners there ported plants going crispy even with water. This is huge news.cover it.
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