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among the stately trees blogging for biodiversity skip to navigation skip to main content skip to primary sidebar skip to secondary sidebar skip to footer among the stately trees blogging for biodiversity home about this blog selected posts botany blitz and knowledge celebration may 31 posted by rkbooth eighteen students officially became wetland ecologists today completing a semester long field intensive course in 3 weeks these students have worked and played extremely hard i am impressed by their perseverance dedication and engagement furthermore they have been an absolutely super fun group to work with i have sincerely enjoyed getting to know them all and i wish them all the best of luck in wherever life takes them next pictures below were taken during yesterday s botany blitz at kingsville swamp thank you all for being a great class stay peaty share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr more share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading posted in wetland ecology management ple leave a comment tags biodiversity conservation ecology ecosystems nature plants science wetlands trail cameras at pymatuning creek marsh and hartstown swamp may 30 posted by rkbooth this year s wetland ecology class at pymatuning laboratory of ecology added a few more wetland inhabitants to the trail camera highlights video can you identify them all share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr more share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading posted in wetland ecology management ple leave a comment tags biodiversity camera trap conservation ecology nature wetlands wildlife integration through delineation may 29 posted by rkbooth the ple wetlanders began the day by learning about wetland restoration and wetland environment feedbacks after a few in class challenges about carbon storage and methane emissions from wetlands the students then examined their macroinvertebrate collections from yesterday s sampling at pymatuning creek marsh the diversity was extremely high although there were a few groans about the leeches this is why we save this activity for last after everyone has spent multiple days slogging around in the marsh after lunch the students tackled the delineation challenge in hartstown swamp in random groups they laid transects from the swamp edge into the upland traveling though areas of possible wetland along the way their task was to collect whatever data they deemed necessary to to determine the distribution of wetland along their transects hint vegetation soils they returned to the lab and worked on analyzing their data and creatively plotting their data supporting their interpretation share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr more share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading posted in wetland ecology management ple leave a comment tags biodiversity conservation ecology ecosystems nature plants science wetland delineation wetlands from bogs to bugs macroinvertebrates of the marsh may 29 posted by rkbooth by tea treherne and anthony bucci ple wetlanders after the long weekend it s safe to say we were all eager to begin our final week of wetlanding at ple before we could get started bob guided us all through the midterm exam despite a few road bumps namely ecosystem services and the collective confusion about what an idealized hydrograph might look like it seems like our class is set up to be on a great path towards the final this upcoming friday lecture consisted of freshwater swamps don t worry we ll remember the white cedars the importance of riparian wetlands functional guilds ffg rcc cpom fpom acronym central up in here flood pulse concept fpc okay we get it and humpty dumpty anyways these discussions ultimately dealt with the interactions that drive productivity biodiversity and ecosystem processes in these wetlands providing a much needed funnel into our biota centered afternoon out in the field since we established that vegetation type and water depth fluctuate greatly across the wetlands we have visited we found ourselves curious as to how this might change the composition of aquatic macroinvertebrates spineless organisms that you can see without a microscope present slipping into our chest waders we headed out to ohio once more to venture into pymatuning creek marsh here we grabbed nets jars buckets sieves and tweezers as we set out on our mission bringing back as many of these water loving bugs as we could catch within an hour that is divided into three sampling categories spatterdock arrow arum and the shallows we wasted no time wading in and start whacking the stalks of our respective plants in search of these little critters while this was going on bob managed to finagle the cameras and wells we had placed out there back when we were just wetland newbies after an hour of falling into the biodiversity rich muck we secured our jars and set sail back towards the classroom with waders hung to dry we put the sieves to action sorting out damselfly nymphs and diving beetles from duckweed this process brought to attention the scale of differences between the macroinvertebrates we had collected although their size and body shapes differ visually speculation as to the functional feeding guilds they belonged to shredders grazers collectors or predators occupied our minds further with the collections now complete we dunked our little friends into ethanol rip so that we may continue to study them another day hopefully finding the answers we are looking for until then may we all blissfully imagine the dragonfly nymphs as peaceful grazers amongst their aquatic neighbors share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr more share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading posted in student guest posts wetland ecology management ple leave a comment tags biodiversity conservation ecology ecosystems macroinvertebrates nature science wetlands seeds through time may 26 posted by rkbooth by addie and mina ple wetlanders despite extreme physical exertion in the bog yesterday bob jumped out of his night time waders to wake us up with highly animated morning lectures on peatland paleoenvironmental archives and wetland change over time excitingly he discussed his own research examining how vast datasets on modern communities of testate amoebae protists in peatlands can be used to reconstruct past peatland water levels this is done by using the environments that the species live in today along with the fossil record to predict the environments that they probably lived in hundreds and thousands of years ago we also learned about the phenomenon of bog bodies which are found human remains that display nearly perfect preservation of physical features like skin and hair the bones dissolve in acidic bog conditions overall our minds were truly bog gled after lecture we dug into our floating mat bog rittos careful to keep the soil cores away from bob after he declared ohh this is making me hungry we sieved and then examined layers of peat and sediment from depths ranging down to 10 meters under the dissecting microscope searching for anything with discrete boundaries seeds leaves sedge remains etc bob provided careful instruction as always the important thing is don t drop your sample 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