Surface sediments were collected from the banks of Giber Å (56°3′53.87″N, 10°10′20.27″E), a lowland, hard-water stream in Eastern Jutland, Denmark.
Dr Jeremy Biggs, Pond Conservation's director, says: "It's hard to clean up our lowland streams, rivers and lakes so that they can support very high quality wildlife.
Snags are also critical for the functioning of lowland river ecosystems — as one of the few hard substrates in lowland river channels composed of fine silts snags are crucial sites for biofilm growth, macroinvertebrate grazing and general in-stream productivity.
Proving that 100 million cubic kilometers of water once filled the martian lowlands is a lot harder than it might seem.
Intensive farming over the decades has meant that the lowland meadows and marshes the bats favour are harder to find".
For more valid assessments, these assignments need to move from the "high, hard ground" closer to the "swampy lowlands" and to be engaged with more fully by the supervisor in the clinical context [ 24].
Speaking at Hampden as the new Lowland League agreed a sponsorship deal of its own, Regan said the SPFL is "working hard" to resolve the problem.
On a good day, when the ground is hard, the hoar frost is painted thick on the twigs and the lowlands below sparkle like salt pans in the sunshine, there might be six of us in the wood.
For Britons and Americans still reeling from the Lockerbie disaster, it was all terribly familiar - though it was hard to imagine a setting more different from the neat little Scottish lowlands town where nine months earlier 270 people had died in the bombing of PanAm flight 103.
In many parts of southwestern Queensland, northeastern South Australia, and northwestern New South Wales, there are plateau and related relief remnants similar to those found in other parts of the lowlands, although those are capped and protected not by laterite but by silcrete, another hard rock residue.
"If there was so much water in the highlands," Irwin asks, "how would you have kept it out of the lowlands?" But proving the existence of an ancient ocean, he acknowledges, "is going to be hard to do".
