Long-term trends of subtidal macrobenthos in North Inlet, South Carolina

Hydrobiologia ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 231 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan K. Service ◽  
Robert J. Feller
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
North Inlet ◽  
Long Term Trends

Perspectives on a 30-Year Career of Salt Marsh Research

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James T. Morris
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Monitoring Program ◽  
Early Career ◽  
North Inlet ◽  
University Of South Carolina ◽  
Environmental Biology ◽  
School Students ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research

A hallmark of my career has been the development of a model of the responses of salt marsh vascular plants to changes in sea level. This discovery would not have been possible without long-term support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) and Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) programs. The LTER and LTREB programs have provided platforms for student research that would have been difficult or impossible to duplicate. Most of my students have benefited from the background of data, which stimulate a never-ending source of thesis topics and from the logistical support. My communication skills have been improved by LTER-sponsored workshops with journalists. I also have had an opportunity to share my enthusiasm for fieldwork with primary school students and teachers. Many of my numerous collaborations are consequences of novel, long-term data that emerged from research supported by the LTER and LTREB programs. There are important environmental trends that develop slowly in response to climate or that reveal themselves infrequently, such as disturbance responses, thresholds, and tipping points. These require long-term, place-based observation of the kind that the LTER and LTREB programs are designed to facilitate. My history with the LTER program began in the late 1970s. As a Yale graduate student working at The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) at Woods Hole, I participated in a workshop organized by Dan Botkin to develop a rationale for a longterm ecological monitoring program (Botkin 1978). After a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship, I moved in 1981 to the University of South Carolina (USC), which had sponsored one of the first LTER sites, North Inlet (NIN). North Inlet was the perfect place for starting a research program in salt marsh ecology, and my research there eventually was supported by the NSF LTREB program. I owe a great deal to NSF for that. My early career benefited enormously from infrastructure at USC’s field laboratory and support by the NIN LTER program, which I did not fully appreciate at the time.

Population Dynamics, Numerical Production, and Potential Predation Impact on a Meiobenthic Copepod

1992 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 609-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
James T. Morris ◽  
Bruce C. Coull
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Biomass Production ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Population Data ◽  
North Inlet ◽  
Temperature Dependent ◽  
Dependent Development ◽  
Microarthridion Littorale

From the fecundity and temperature-dependent development times of the life stages of Microarthridion littorale and long-term measurements of the densities of copepodites and female and male adults in subtidal sediments at North Inlet, South Carolina, we calculated maximum and minimum productivity limits of this meiobenthic copepod. The potential production of numbers of nauplii (10 002 × 103∙m−2∙yr−1) exceeds the population density and production of copepodites and adults by about 2 orders of magnitude; observed populations of copepodites and adults can be supported even with a 98% mortality of nauplii. This suggests that predation or other causes of nauplii mortality limits the population density of M. littorale at North Inlet. The potential dry biomass production of nauplii is about 2.0 g∙m−2∙yr−1and greatly exceeds the combined biomass production of copepodites and adults. Because the minimum numerical productivity (that required to explain the temporal changes in population size) of adults (38 × 103∙m−2∙yr−1) is 26% of the maximum potential adult productivity (derived from the maturation of copepodites), it is likely that adult densities are regulated by recruitment. A time series of population data indicates large interannual variations in production of the different developmental stages, with potential naupliar recruitment showing the greatest variability.

Commercial trawling in seagrass beds: bycatch and long-term trends in effort of a major shrimp fishery

2014 ◽  
Vol 513 ◽  
pp. 143-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
CD Stallings ◽  
JP Brower ◽  
JM Heinlein Loch ◽  
A Mickle
Keyword(s):  
Seagrass Beds ◽  
Shrimp Fishery ◽  
Long Term Trends

Recognition of Family Caregivers in Managed Long-Term Services and Supports: South Carolina State Summary

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Kasten ◽  
Elizabeth Lewis ◽  
Sari Lelchook ◽  
Lynn Feinberg ◽  
Edem Hado
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Services And Supports
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