After taking our #Spartina belowground biomass cores at North Inlet-Winyah Bay, we sorted that biomass into three categories. Do different #nitrogen inputs to #saltmarshes affect allocation to long-lived rhizomes, root tissues devoted to resource acquisition, or turnover into the dead biomass pool?
and pull out our core sample (that one was pretty sparse--mostly #Spartina bio/necro-mass).
Adult roseate spoonbill flying across green spartina marsh grass
Happy Spoonbill!
🪶 #birds #fineart #photography #avian #wildlife #nature #threskiornithidae #spoonbills #marsh #spartina #roseatespoonbills #glynncounty #mhbenton
By August 2023 the #Spartina alterniflora plants we had planted in our marsh organs @pie-lter.bsky.social had grown to a healthy size! The different elevations of the marsh organ simulate the effects of varying sea level scenarios. Also, check out all those mud snails (Ilyanassa obsoleta?)!
If you love the saltmarsh (wherever you are) you might have to take a look at this brief article.
#Spatrtina4Ever #Spartina
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/....
The American White Ibis standing in the spartina grass in Village Creek Marsh
Three Ibis
🪶 #birds #ornithology #wildlife #natue #photography #wildlifephotography #threskiornithidae #ibis #whitetibis #americanwhiteibis #glynncounty #mhbenton #spartina #saltmarsh
Linear regressions of square-root-transformed aboveground biomass as a function of water-table depth for Andropogon gerardii, Bouteloua curtipendula, Schizachyrium scoparium, Sorghastrum nutans, and Spartina pectinata grown in monoculture in mesocosms.
Flood-driven survival & growth of dominant C4 #grasses helps set their distributions along tallgrass #prairie moisture gradients
New #AJB research by @drwernerehl.bsky.social & Thomas Givnish
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #spartina #flooding
An adult white ibis picking in the dead spartina wrack at the edge of the marsh.
Ibis In The Wrack
Strong NE wind blew a bunch of wrack up along our sea wall. The ibis love picking through it.
🪶 #birds #ornithology #photography #ibis #whiteibis #spartina #wrack #saltmarsh #marshwrack #glynncounty #mhbenton
spartina marsh grass reflection on blue water through a blur filter
Spartina In The Marsh
Slow day for birds so I thought to get creative with what was there and add a lens blur.
#landscape #photography #saltmarsh #spartina #reflection #lensblur #glynncounty #mhbenton
Herbarium label for a Sporobolus pumilus specimen. Formerly known as Spartina patens.
Proof that you can teach an old dog new tricks.
#spartina #iamabotanist #herbarium #Poaceae
Resource competition model predicts zonation and increasing nutrient use efficiency of emergent vegetation along a wetland salinity gradient #Typha #Spartina #Schoenoplectus @H_Mossman @LAST_EBD @busta43
