Road Salt is Polluting Fresh Water

Salt keeps us safe on icy roads — but it’s also quietly harming waterways.

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Deposition, benthic residence, and resuspension of fine organic particles in a mountain stream

Newbold, J.D., S.A. Thomas, G.W. Minshall, C.E. Cushing, and T. Georgian. 2005. Limnology and Oceanography 50:1571–1580.

Metaproteomic analysis of Chesapeake Bay microbial communities

Kan, J., T.E. Hanson, J.M. Ginter, K. Wang, and F. Chen. 2005. Saline Systems 1:7.

Synthesis of ¹³C-labeled tracer for stream DOC: labeling tulip poplar carbon with ¹³CO₂

Wiegner, T.N., L.A. Kaplan, J.D. Newbold, and P.H. Ostrom. 2005. Ecosystems 8:501–511.

A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Young organic matter as a source of carbon dioxide outgassing from Amazonian rivers

Mayorga, E., A.K. Aufdenkampe, C.A. Masiello, A.V. Krusche, J.I. Hedges, P.D. Quay, and J.E. Richey. 2005. Nature 436(7050):538–541.

Anthony Aufdenkampe taking water samples from the Pixiam River in Brazil

Amazon Source of 5-Year-Old River Breath

Most of the carbon being outgassed as carbon dioxide from Amazonian rivers and wetlands has spent a mere five years sequestered in the plants and soils of the surrounding landscape.

Lateral organization of aquatic invertebrates along the continuum of a braided-floodplain river

Arscott, D.B., K. Tockner, J.V. Ward. 2005. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 24:934–945.

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