Sentence examples for streams wetlands from inspiring English sources

They have disappeared from a wide range of habitats northern lakes, southern streams, wetlands, and particularly springs.

"But we want to be able to document with scientific information longwall's effects on water resources, on the streams, wetlands and buffer areas.

Laurel Larsen plans to harness environmental data to develop models that could predict potentially disastrous tipping points in streams, wetlands and other ecosystems.

Indeed, hours before the President's address on Tuesday, his aides were finalizing an executive order that will enable the rollback of E.P.A. regulations protecting streams, wetlands, and major bodies of water from pollution.

As water companies and farmers need to abstract water from rivers in order to maintain supplies and keep crops growing, less is available for streams, wetlands and other areas where wildlife normally flourishes.

Given the administration's ties to real estate, oil and mining interests -- groups that have long resented the act's restrictions -- conservationists fear that this review process can have only one result, shrinking protections not only for prairie potholes but also small streams, wetlands adjacent but not visibly connected to navigable waters, even tributaries of bigger rivers.

Similarly, environmental constraints such as steep slopes, streams, wetland areas are less common but still likely barriers faced by developers.

Legacy source of mercury in an urban stream-wetland ecosystem in central North Carolina, USA.

Importantly, the concentrations of total mercury and methylmercury were reduced to background levels within the stream-wetland complex.

Further downstream in the anaerobic sediments of the stream-wetland complex, a fraction (up to 9%) of mercury was converted to methylmercury, the bioaccumulative form of the metal.

Here, we studied the contribution of mercury in urban runoff derived from historically contaminated soils and the subsequent production of methylmercury in a stream-wetland complex (Durham, North Carolina), the receiving water of this runoff.