Conservation Activities South Atlantic Costal Plain

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Biosphere Reserve Conservation Activities

South Atlantic Costal Plain

Overview

General Description

Conservation Activities

Elevated broadwalk enables walkover during floods

Students from Sandhills Middle School maintain communication signal with remote controlled NASA airplane while it collects data on vegetation communities using digital and infrared cameras. Photo by NPS.

Text Box: Research and Monitoring

Forest dynamics - regeneration, recruitment, and succession
Hydrology - influences on vegetation distribution
Atmospheric pollutants and acid deposition
Nutrient cycles-carbon and nitrogen
Global environmental change

Last updated: 12/19/2005

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