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  • 2018-02-19
    Road Salt in Our Waterways (Score: 1.77)

    Researchers investigated the long-term trends of road salt use on 371 freshwater lakes across North America, including 20 lakes in…

    Tags:

    • water quality
    • winter
    • roads

    Themes:

    • Water Quality

  • 2017-05-03
    Nematodes: New Indicators for Road Impacts (Score: 1.64)

    A new study offers a creative way to monitor roadside ecosystem changes: by tracking nematodes, or roundworms, through the soil.

    Tags:

    • monitoring
    • roads
    • soil
    • nematodes
    • roundworms

    Themes:

    • Forest Ecosystems
    • Biodiversity

  • 2014-06-26
    Better Back Roads Management Evaluation (Score: 1.36)

    The Better Back Roads program has been in use since 1997 on rural roads in Vermont. This study evaluated several…

    Tags:

    • nutrients
    • phosphorus
    • roads
    • best management practices
    • bmp
    • sediment

    Themes:

    • Water Quality

  • 2017-02-20
    Frog Distribution in a Changing Landscape (Score: 1.28)

    Thirty percent of the world's amphibian species are threatened, and researchers suspect that land use change may be implicated.

    Tags:

    • agriculture
    • land use
    • monitoring
    • roads
    • habitat
    • amphibians
    • wildlife
    • development

    Themes:

    • Biodiversity