Mountain streams: Still living in the '50s
The diversity of creatures in a mountain stream reflects not current conditions but whether the surrounding land was forest or farm half a century ago.
References:
Harding, J.S., E.F. Benfield, P.V. Bolstad, et al. 1998. Stream biodiversity: The ghost of land use past. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95(Dec. 8):14843.
Further Readings:
The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network, a collaborative effort involving more than 1100 scientists and students investigating long-term ecological processes, has a Web site at http://ilternet.edu .
The Coweeta Long-Term Ecological Research project Web site is available at http://sparc.ecology.uga.edu/.
Sources:
J. David Allen
University of Michigan
School of Natural Resources and Environment
2066 Dana
Ann Arbor, MI 48109Fred Benfield
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Department of Biology
Blacksburg, VA 24061Stanley V. Gregory
Oregon State University
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Nash Hall, Room 104
Corvallis, OR 97331-3803
From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 24, December 12,
1998, p. 375.
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