SCIENCE NEWS: The big ecological roles of small, natural features; Saving wild salmon all in a days work; Work on Yuba River’s Hammon Bar earns high honors; Calculating ‘old’ and ‘new’ runoff; and more ….
In science news this week: The big ecological roles of small, natural features; Saving wild salmon all in a days work; Work on Yuba River’s Hammon Bar earns high honors; Calculating ‘old’ and ‘new’ runoff; The (fishery-monitoring) cameras never blink; and This awesome periodic table tells you how to actually use all those elements The big ecological roles of small, natural features: “Ecologists and conservationists have long recognized that keystone species have major ecological importance disproportionate to their abundance or size.
Now an international group of researchers is exploring the disproportionate ecological importance of small natural features — unique environmental elements that provide significant ecological and economic impacts.
Ruth has been restoring salmon habitat in Northern California for more than 20 years.
… ” Read more from NOAA here: Saving wild salmon all in a days work Work on Yuba River’s Hammon Bar earns high honors: “Initially, a single, unassuming twig was observed rising from a sandy gravel beach at the lower Yuba River near Marysville earlier this year.
These carefully labeled samples will help tell the story of how the water moves during and after a rainstorm or snow melt.
Ross, a member of the Watershed Systems Research Program at the University of Manitoba, is measuring water flow in a part of the soil called the vadose zone.
Lucky for us, Keith Enevoldsen from elements.wlonk.com has come up with this awesome periodic table that gives you at least one example for every single element (except for those weird superheavy elements that don’t actually exist in nature).… ” Read more from Science Alert here: This awesome periodic table tells you how to actually use all those elements Maven’s XKCD Comic Pick of the Week … Sign up for daily email service and you’ll never miss a post!
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About Science News and Reports: This weekly feature, posted every Thursday, is a collection of the latest scientific research and reports with a focus on relevant issues to the Delta and to California water, although other issues such as climate change are sometimes included.