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The Great Salt Lake lies in a terminal basin, and thus accumulates nutrients and other pollutants produced in its watershed. With the growth of communities in the Wasatch Front, ever-increasing stress is being placed on the lake. Farmington Bay,...
2004-01-01
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Multiple sediment cores were used to address how metals contamination and eutrophication has changed over the last 200 years in the Great Salt Lake. The cores from Gilbert and Farmington Bay were sectioned in 0.5-cm intervals, and analyzed for...
2012-01-01
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Farmington Bay, is a large (100 mi2; 260 km2) and very shallow (mean depth ~3 ft) embayment at the SE corner of the Great Salt Lake, bordering greater metropolitan Salt Lake City. The embayment is largely enclosed by an automobile causeway so that...
2006-01-01
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Natural geography and causeways have divided the Great Salt Lake into four bays with limited, but important connections. Most pollutants from cities in Utah flow into Farmington Bay, and to a lesser extent, into Bear River Bay before entering...
2008-01-01
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Farmington Bay is a hypereutrophic embayment of the Great Salt Lake. Monitoring of brine shrimp (Artemia franciscana Kellogg) populations had indicated that brine shrimp densities in Farmington Bay are only 61% of those in the Great Salt Lake....
2004-01-01
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In September 2012 the Aquatic Ecology Practicum class from Utah State University studied the 51km river continuum of the Little Bear River located in northern Utah (Figure 1). The relatively pristine headwaters of the river begin in the Wasatch...
2013-01-01
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Farmington Bay of Great Salt Lake has been studied extensively over the last two decades and observations indicate high levels of both nutrients and the toxic cyanobacteria Nodularia spumigena. During 2012-2013 we measured the physical, chemical,...
2014-01-01
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In a wild fire, organic volatile compounds from vegetation condense on soil particles forming a hydrophobic layer several centimeters below the soil surface. We studied the degradation of the hydrophobic layer in soils from two fire sites. One...
2009-01-01
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In the Intermountain West, aspen (Populus tremuloides) has declined mainly due to a combination of successional processes, fire suppression and long-term use of ungulates which has led to replacement by conifers, sagebrush or other shrub...
2007-11-07
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Encroachment of aspen (Populus tremuloides) by conifers in the Intermountain West is considered to have a negative impact on soil functions and carbon (C) storage. Little is known about C storage in aspen soils in the Intermountain West. The...
2006-11-01
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Defining soil organic carbon (SOC) quality and understanding the effects of vegetation cover and climate are of central importance to determining how stable SOC will be with changing climate and/or vegetation shifts. Our earlier investigations at...
2006-11-01
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Soils represent the largest carbon (C) reservoir of terrestrial ecosystems. The ability of soils to hold on to this soil organic carbon (SOC) depends on climate and C quality. The SOC dynamics in forest and range ecosystems in montane areas of the...
2005-11-01
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Part 1 of a video that focuses on the Bear River Basin of Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, with special emphasis on the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge which is located at the river's delta in the Great Salt Lake.
2009-01-01
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Wetlands in the arid western United States provide rare and critical migratory bird habitat and constitute a critical nexus within larger social-ecological systems (SES) where multiple changing land-use and water-use patterns meet. The Bear River...
2014-01-01
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Studies on invasive plant management are often short in duration and limited in the methods tested, and lack an adequate description of plant communities that replace the invader following removal. Here we present a comprehensive review of...
2014-01-16
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Around the Great Salt Lake (GSL), Utah, impoundment and water level manipulation is a common management practice, originally established to protect wetlands at the terminal ends of rivers from major fluctuations caused by upstream water use....
2014-04-02
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The Bear River flows for 500 miles through a highly variable, snow-driven, drought-prone montane ecosystem in the arid region of the western United States. It traverses three states, is diverted to store water in an ecologically unique natural...
2010-04-21
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The Bear River is driven by a highly variable, snow-driven montane ecosystem and flows through a drought-prone arid region of the western United States. It traverses three states, is diverted to store water in an ecologically unique natural lake,...
2013-01-01
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Part 2 of a video that focuses on the Bear River Basin of Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, with special emphasis on the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge which is located at the river's delta in the Great Salt Lake.
2009-01-01
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Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge is located at the end of the Bear River as it enters the Great Salt Lake. The Bear River is highly variable and heavily appropriated. This research explores how the Refuge has adapted to the physical and...
2010-04-21
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Wetlands in arid regions, like the western United States, regularly experience water shortages which likely will be exacerbated by climate change and increased human impacts on water supplies. Unfortunately, little consensus exists on the effects...
2011-03-30
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Invasive species cause substantial economic and ecological harm throughout the world. Species distribution models are one tool used to combat invaders by providing information about areas susceptible to invasion and highlighting anthropogenic...
2011-03-30
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When collecting seed for wetland restoration projects, it is important to understand the genetic diversity within and among source populations to balance the risks of inbreeding and outbreeding depression while maintaining genetic diversity to...
2013-01-01
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