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Research Highlights
PBRP Research Highlights are one-page downloadable summaries of individual research projects for policymakers, news media, researchers, students, and other stakeholders.
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Parasites as Indicators of Pollution
W. Font, M. Collins, and S. Temple
August 2007 | No. 6
Can we tell if water is polluted or not just by examining fish for parasites? If so, costly and time-consuming pollution tests could be avoided. To test the usefulness of parasites to detect pollution, we evalua ted the parasite loads of common estuarine fish...
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Effect of Wetland Degradation on Bird Communities
P.C. Stouffer and Jason A. Zoller
January 2007 | No. 5
The swamps surrounding Lake Maurepas are in a state of rapid degradation from forest to transitional forest to marsh or open water. Because the transition in these forests is proceeding quickly, we were interested in which sorts of birds...
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Use of Lake Maurepas Wetlands by Migrating Birds
P.C. Stouffer and Jason A. Zoller
November 2006 | No. 4
We were interested in the effect of landscape change upon these Neotropical migratory birds, so we compared the distribution and abundance of birds in the Maurepas wetlands during migrations to the Pearl River basin, a more intact system....
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Ecology and Restoration Potential of the Manchac Wetlands:
Simulating a Diversion in the Maurepas Swamps
G. Shaffer, T. Perkins, D. Thomson, S. Howell, and S. Hoeppner
October 2006 | No. 3
The swamps surrounding Lake Maurepas are severely stressed. During spring of 2000, a large study was launched in the baldcypress/tupelogum swamps of Lake Maurepas to determine the feasibility of diverting freshwater, sediments, and associated nutrients ....
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Ecology and Restoration Potential of the Manchac Wetlands:
Effects of Contaminants upon Sunfish
A. Cheek and B. Henry
October 2006 | No. 2
...The sunfish, Lepomis spp, a common species of fish in the Lake Pontchartrain
Basin, was chosen as the animal model to investigate the physiological and ecological impact of exposure to polyaromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals....
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Turtle Cove Experimental Marsh: Effects of disturbance and fertility upon the vegetation of a Louisiana coastal marsh.
T. Mcfalls, P. Keddy, G. Shaffer and D. Campbell
October 2006 | No. 1
The future of Louisiana’s coastal marshes is threatened by a multitude of factors including: relative sea level rise saltwater intrusion, altered hydrology (e.g. canal construction), exotic species, wave erosion, and the elimination of riverine inputs by artificial levees....
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