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The Salt in Our Streams

Amy Ulland ·

The Salt Watch program monitors chloride levels in waterways as a result of road salt usage. This newsletter presents the results of the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy's 2024-2025 Salt Watch monitoring season. It aims to educate about the impacts of road salt runoff and encourage community members to advocate for and implement responsible road salt usage.

Seasonal asynchrony and harvest diversification contribute to demersal finfish fisheries stability in Chesapeake Bay (Page 1)

Seasonal asynchrony and harvest diversification contribute to demersal finfish fisheries stability in Chesapeake Bay

Hardison, SB, Lefcheck JS, White SB, Liang M, Zhang YS, Patrick CJ, and Scheld AM ·

Biodiversity can confer temporal stability to ecosystem processes through asynchrony in species' abundances and may promote asynchrony and stability of commercial fishing harvests derived from exploited species. However, the linkages between asynchrony in the population dynamics of commercially harvested species and asynchrony of associated harvests have been difficult to resolve due to ecological, social, and economic dynamics that mediate resource extraction.