Reconnecting headwater streams to floodplains enhanced watershed denitrification rates by 50% in a recent study. Less excess in our waterways = healthier ecosystems.
https://t.co/rIcC2RlWkr

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Our new paper is now published on !
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From habitat to genes. Understand how habitat affinity shapes genetic divergence in Amazonian floodplain bird populations during periods of intense historical environmental change.

https://t.co/wW7TeLoRIM

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The 2020 Long Preston Bird report is now available to download free from the Long Preston Floodplain Project website https://t.co/2V31lqWR6k

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I'll cheer the river as she breaks these banks and makes floodplains of us both.

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those who frequent the floodplain at night may have spotted a legion of black-clad knights, marching tirelessly through the river as if it were naught but thick fog

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Mermaids, who live in the deep waters of the ancient Dnipro river, like to swim to the Kherson floodplains in summer. They bask in shallow water and taste sweet watermelons, which they exchange for carps and pikes.

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an afternoon of wandering the floodplains

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Taking a dip in the floodplains...🐠🐟🦈

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Also: This is the coat of arms of "Ottrau" (probably means "Otter Floodplain") in the state of Hessia! This looks even more otterly. 😄

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In the monograph, it was stated that the bulk of Q. lawsoni were found in a single site- an abandoned channel lake, a body of water cut off from the rest of the floodplain. Because the absence of aquatic vertebrates but abundance of invertebrates, it was posited that...

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My entry for the A sunny morning on the floodplains of late Oligocene Nebraska.

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Sobek, the Egyptian crocodilian god of the Nile, was a protective and solar deity, warding off evil and protecting the innocent. In the New Kingdom period, he was fused with the Sun god to form Sobek-Ra, symbolizing the power of the Pharaohs and fertility of the Nile floodplains.

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Way too often I feel like we look only the dispositional environment of a fossil (mostly floodplains, rivers, lagoons etc.) without asking ourselves what fantastic backdrops these animals could have inhabited besides where they were found.

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I don’t think I’ve ever shared this on Twitter before. This is my first digital painting I ever did of herrerasaurus I called “moonlit floodplain”

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Sintashta built circular fortified settlements on islands in floodplains. Their walls could be 5-6 meters high, & were made of stone, earth, & wood.

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Apatosaurus on floodplains at sunrise, finished but not perfect. I've been working on this on and off for a long time and I decided that there's not much more I can do with it. I hope this year I'm able to do more paleoart. Fingers crossed!

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