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SUBMITTER: Vanderplank SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4776670 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vanderplank Sula E SE Mata Sergio S Ezcurra Exequiel E
Bioscience 20140204 3
Natural and cultural heritage sites frequently have nonoverlapping or even conflicting conservation priorities, because human impacts have often resulted in local extirpations and reduced levels of native biodiversity. Over thousands of years, the predictable winter rains of northwestern Baja California have weathered calcium from the clam shells deposited by indigenous peoples in middens along the coast. The release of this calcium has changed soil properties, remediated sodic and saline soils, ...[more]