Henderson Levee Diversity

Competition had a vast effect on  growth, especially on spartina patens.  Both plants flourished, growing the most in freshwater marshes, without the presence of neighbors.  However, with the presence of neighbors, spartina patens was overcome dropping significantly.  While typha angustifolia did drop with neighbors it remained stronger than spartina patens.  In the case of salt marshes, typha angustifolia did not grow at all.  While spartina patens was much more stable with or without neighbors in salt marshes.  This suggests that while typha angustifolia, more dominant in freshwater, unable to grow in salt marshes pushed out spartina patens, who was able to endure salt during growth.  In conclusion typha angustifolia was greatly subdued by abiotic factors, while spartina patens was more limited by

The bar chart was used to compare the number of species in each transect. In transect A, there were 5 different species. The species in this area were mostly grass, forbs, moss, bugs and beetles. Bugs and beetles made up a small population of this transect. In transect B, there were also 5 species. The species were mostly grass, shrubs, forbs, moss and bugs. In this transect, shrubs were found which makes transect B more diversed than A. In Transect C, 8 species were located in this area. The species included shrubs, grass, fobs, evergreen, trees, dirt, bugs and spiders. New species such as evergreen, trees, dirt and spiders were located in this location. Therefore the test that diversity happens through ecological succession was

The annual rate of precipitation, and elevational range once generated a strong foundation for a wide diversity of vegetation

larger vegetation zones to the way we should understand the ecology of the land scape.

Chesapeake Bay population growth many different species of plants in the watershed that it come from freshwater flow (Magnien 1992). The one species plant found in Chesapeake is Cattails plant; often it found specie in northern North America a variety in wetlands habitats like lake or river. (Bo Zhang 2010). Soil is mineral and organic fragment with water. The plants need all of these to healthy growth. When the space of ground between soil and water if these are quantity low or high the concentration of water for the plants. The research to compare Cattails in two different locations; one location had dry soil and second location had wet soil. This research to find which one is quantity for Cattails growth in dry or wet soils. The hypothesis

Over 10,000 invertebrates live in wetlands in the US (Restoring Iowa). Wetlands also support over “190 species of amphibians, 5,000 plant species, and a third of all native bird species” (Restoring Iowa). Most of Iowa’s past wetlands were in the Des Moines lobe, in the north and central parts of Iowa (Iowa Wetlands).

Reviewing the requirements for a hotspot makes the fact that the North American Costal Plain is 1 of only 36 hotspots in the world makes this fact so much more aspiring. When looking at a map it is clear that the North American Costal Plain starts in Mexico and goes all the way up into Massachusetts, and Louisiana is completely nestled into this plain. Looking closely into different regions of the North American Costal Plains shows that even though these regions are all a costal plain they each have their own setting and unique characteristics. To reflect on why the biodiversity varies, this paper will explore some of the North American Coastal Plain briefly.

9) A diverse wetlands ecosystem would result from the preservation of non tidal habitats including seasonal ponds/sand flats and perennial brackish ponds.

The location of the Northeast Transect Line is shown in the Figure 3. The profile information is shown in Figure 4. According to Figure 4, the length of the Northeast Transect Line is 668 feet. Each plot is 66 feet long or 20 meters long; however, the last plot, plot 10, is longer than the rest at 74 feet. The steepest slope in the Northeast Transect occurs from Plot 1 to Plot 4; the elevation decreases approximately from 1330 feet to 1280 feet. After Plot 5, the slope becomes much more subtle (roughly 1270 feet). The species composition is listed in Table 1. Little Bluestem, Yellow Indiangrass, Switchgrass, and Big Bluestem appear in every plot in the transect line. Ragweed and Heath Aster appear in 9 plots. Prairie Cone Flower, White Sage, Roundhead Lespedeza, St. John's Wort, Hoary Verbena, Leadplant, Prairie Rose, Roughleaf Dogwood, Kansas Gayfeather, Western Silky Aster, Boneset, Pitcher Sage, and Smooth Sumac appear in no more than 3 plots.

Vegetation Type: White spruce Douglas fir-lodgepole pine on old alluvial fans, White spruce-western red cedar on damp alluvial fan, white spruce on permanently water-logged soil, aspen-balsam poplar on moist alluvium

What is the verifiable setting of wetlands? Wetlands are areas where water covers the earth, near the surface of the soil all through the whole year or in the midst of drawn out extends of time. Wetlands are secured by plants, running from lowland grasses to trees. These plants must have the ability to live in soil without oxygen in the midst of parts of the creating season. A couple of wetlands are far from immeasurable water. These are molded where water accumulates or where groundwater raises to the surface. Wetlands can be depicted as swamps, tidal lowlands, shoreline wetlands, and estuaries.

Wetland soils are extremely varied. They are found from the tropics to the subarctic. They can be seasonal or year-round, freshwater or saltwater, organic or mineral. The one thing that all of them have in common is that for at least part of the year they are saturated with water. This saturation has a significant impact on the soil's physics, chemistry, and biota. However, over the past century more than half of all the wetlands in the United States has been drained for agriculture and other uses such as construction. When the soils are drained the physics, chemistry, and biota are drastically changed. This paper is an attempt to

4. Dried leaves were retrieved and weighed. The total tissue loss from initial weight before submersion until now was recorded. Class inputs data and a class mean and standard deviation of tissue loss/ day was gathered for both wetlands for each species

The patterns of biological diversity in rivers and streams among taxa vary on a spatial and temporal scale (Ligeiro et al. 2010; McGarvey and Terra 2015). Variations in stream ecology can be contributed to water quality, habitat, and history of disturbance (Lingeiro et al. 2010). Creeks and streams feed into rivers and other larger bodies of water, which provide food, water, and other commercial and recreational services as well as a home to an array of plants and animals which rely on clean water. The health of these smaller bodies of water can act as indicators for the health of the larger watershed.

In this article it speaks about many different types of indicators that one could see in order to determine the ecological state of the wetland by my factors such as the biodiversity, pollution levels, the fauna and flora in the wetland. This relates to our wetland as we have a large biodiversity in our wetland with little pollution as well as plants such as reeds growing which indicate a healthy wetland. We also occasionally see a large variety of birds in our wetland therefore another indicator that our wetland is healthy.