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Measuring microbes makes wetland health monitoring more affordable, says researcher
2013-04-10 01:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Wetlands serve as Earth's kidneys. They filter and clean people's water supplies while serving as important habitat for many species, including iconic species like cattails, cranes and alligators. Conventional ecosystem health assessments have focused on populations of these larger species. However, the tiny, unseen creatures in the wetlands provided crucial indicators of the ecosystems' health in a study by University of Missouri Associate Professor of Engineering Zhiqiang Hu and his team. Using...
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