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It's in the Air: The Ecological Effects of Nitrogen Deposition in Rocky Mountain National Park

Encroaching development, overuse, and air- and waterborne contaminants from outside park boundaries are causing noticeable changes to water quality and ecosystem health and functioning. The Front Range metropolitan area from Fort Collins south to Colorado Springs includes 75 percent of Colorado's population and its most productive agricultural More...

  • Photo of lead investigator Dr. Jill Baron preparing to extract water from a soil lysimeter

Contaminant Biology Program: Databases

This web page lists databases related to contaminant research across government agencies and partnerships. Many of the links include access to documented trends in the occurrence of persistent toxic chemicals that may threaten fish and wildlife resources, summaries of the results from aquatic acute toxicity tests, Avian Incident Monitoring, More...

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Chemical Pollutants and Toxic Effects on Benthic Organisms, Biscayne Bay, Florida

Geologically, the porous limestone of Florida connects the Everglades with Florida and Biscayne Bays, the Florida Keys, and the largest offshore tract of coral reefs in the continental U.S. These areas are also biologically connected because many marine organisms spend different stages of their life cycles in the various ecosystems, most of which More...

  • Sediment sampling: Landsat satellite image of Biscayne Bay, showing the boundary of Biscayne Nationa