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		<title>USGS Multimedia Gallery for tag: mangroves</title>

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				<title><![CDATA[Scientists Explore Mangroves]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_16_2011_gLCn16Qed8_06_16_2011_5</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[<p>Scientists explore mangroves in a beach environment, Cape Sable, FL.</p>]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[BSC Anchorage]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_0</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Anchored at the mouth of Big Sable Creek in Everglades National Park preparatory to 4-5 days field work on mangrove-associated fish and terrapins.]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Accessing Hurricane-Produced Mudflat BSC]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_1</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Mudflats (open water in background) derived via erosion and habitat conversion from former mangrove forests often have a band of mangroves adjacent to the creek bank.  Here a researcher accesses a mudflat at high tide to make measurements.]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Awaiting High Tide to Set Block Nets]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_2</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Sampling fish within the intertidal zone of a mangrove forest requires setting a block net at the interface between forest and river at high tide, then retrieving the net at low tide.  Here researchers await high tide to set the nets seen in the boat. ]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Closing Seine Around Pivot Pole]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_3</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Seining for fish in open water necessitates closing the seine quickly to avoid fish escape.  Closing the seine around a pole offshore accomplishes this objective in sampling.]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Deploying Lift Net,  Everglades National Park]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_4</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Lift nets buried in the forest floor and deployed at high tide permit the estimation of fish density within flooded forests.]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Closing Seine Around Pivot Pole,  Everglades National Park]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_5</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Seining for fish in open water necessitates closing the seine quickly to avoid fish escape.  Closing the seine around a pole offshore accomplishes this objective in sampling.]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Fish Processing in Lab]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_6</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Technician processes fish samples brought in from mangroves.]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[GCC BSC Set Block Net]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_7</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Setting block net across an intertidal rivulet draining a hurricane-derived mudflat.  Net is retrieved at low tide to obtain an estimate of fish catch.  Fish density was found to be greater in waters draining natural tidal forests than in waters from mudflats formed as a result of landfall of a Category 5 hurricane on Cape Sable, Everglades National Park in 1935. ]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Hydrological Measurements ]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_9</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Estimating volume of water discharged from fish sampling locations within mangrove forests is necessary to derive fish density estimates per volume.  Fish density was found to be greater in waters draining natural tidal forests than in waters from mudflats formed as a result of landfall of a Category 5 hurricane on Cape Sable, Everglades National Park in 1935.  Thus landfall of strong hurricanes can have long-lasting effects.]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Measuring Flow From a Mangrove Forest]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_10</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[USGS scientist measures water velocity as part of estimating flow from a mangrove forest.]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Opening Center Bag of Seine, Everglades National Park]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_11</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Sampling juvenile common snook following passage of Hurricane Wilma October 2005.  Storm surge from hurricane is hypothesized to have facilitated recruitment of this sportfish to presumptive Tarpon Bay nursery grounds in the following 18 months.]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[End of Dry Season]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_12</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Dead molluscs and raccoon tracks are concentrated in cracks in mud in the substrate of a dried-down tidal pond.  Increased frequency and duration of droughts are predicted by some climate models.]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Seining Blocked-off Mosquito Ditch]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_13</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Scientists pull a seine net through a blocked-off section of a man-made ditch to estimate fish abundance.]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Seining Blocked-off Mosquito Ditch ]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_14</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Scientists pull a seine net through a blocked-off section of a man-made ditch to estimate fish abundance.]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Seining, Everglades National Park]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_15</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Scientists pull a seine net through an intertidal creek to estimate fish abundance.]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Sunrise Tarpon Bay Shark River ]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_16</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Sunrise over a mangrove shoreline, Shark River, Everglades National Park.]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Juvenile Tarpon in Mangrove Nursery Area]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_ydt2Wki77Q_08_13_2010_17</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[USGS SCEP displays juvenile tarpon captured in a poorly-connected tidal pond.]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[A Diversity of Corals Growing in the Mangroves Within Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_12_2010_w0Se73Hut5_08_12_2010_0</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[This photo shows a mangrove ecosystem that may be unique in the Caribbean in terms of the abundance and diversity of corals.
<p>USGS scientists are collaborating with scientists at the University of the Virgin Islands to learn more about why these corals are thriving while coral cover on USVI reefs has declined by 60% from bleaching and disease.  With climate change, sea water temperatures are expected to rise with bleaching events becoming more common.</p>]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[A Diversity of Corals Growing in the Mangroves Within Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_12_2010_w0Se73Hut5_08_12_2010_1</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[This photo shows a mangrove ecosystem that may be unique in the Caribbean in terms of the abundance and diversity of corals.
<p>USGS scientists are collaborating with scientists at the University of the Virgin Islands to learn more about why these corals are thriving while coral cover on USVI reefs has declined by 60% from bleaching and disease.  With climate change, sea water temperatures are expected to rise with bleaching events becoming more common.</p>]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Mangroves Killed by Hurricane Wilma in Everglades National Park]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/07_12_2010_xCSf73Huu5_07_12_2010_0</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[In this picture of Shark Island, Everglades National Park, you can see numerous mangroves killed by high winds and storm surge from Hurricane Wilma (2005). ]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Sampling in the Mangroves -- 3-D Twister!]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/12_11_2009_c28Jb44ayu_12_11_2009_10</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[USGS scientists are studying the plants and animals that are part of the coastal mangrove ecotone of Everglades National Park.]]></media:description>
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