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Home North Atlantic Coast ~ The North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit CESU engages federal agency scientists and managers in collaboration with academic and other nonfederal scientists and students to understand how fundamental ecosystem functions and processes are affected by increasing urban development climate change and other stressors and then to devise management strategies for preserving and restoring coastal ecosystems cultural resources and maritime heritage

North Atlantic Coast Ecoregion LandScope America ~ The North Atlantic Coast Ecoregion NAC consists of parts of nine states DE PA NJ NY CT RI MA NH ME and their near shore marine waters The land and freshwater component of the ecoregion encompasses 127 million acres in a narrow band from the southwestern shore of Delaware Bay north to Pemaquid Point in Maine

A Closer Look Land Loss Along the Atlantic Coast ~ In addition much of the land along the Atlantic coast is sinking which magnifies the local effect of sea level rise The land in North America is actually still adjusting to the loss of ice after the last ice age which peaked about 20000 years ago Back then thick sheets of ice covered areas of what is now Canada and the northern United States

Facts on the Atlantic Coastal Plains Sciencing ~ The Atlantic Coastal plains stretch from parts of Massachusetts and New York in the north to the Florida Keys in the south covering more than 2200 miles along the Atlantic Coast of North America and extending up to 62 miles inland Ocean sea levels affect this lowlying region as well as the water table beneath the states that line the coast

North Atlantic Coast Conservation Gateway ~ ​The ecoregion consists of a glaciated irregular plain composed of sandy till and modified by coastal processes in NJ DE NY RI CT MA NH ME and a tiny piece of PA Kames kettle holes drumlins and reworked terminal moraines are typical features

CESU Network North Atlantic Coast Information Portal ~ The North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit NAC CESU was established in June 1999 by cooperative agreement between agencies of the Department of the Interior National Park Service and USGS Biological Resources Division and the University of Rhode Island with its partner institution University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Ecoregions of North America Ecosystems Research US EPA ~ Level I ecological regions are Arctic Cordillera Tundra Taiga Hudson Plains Northern Forests Northwestern Forested Mountains Marine West Coast Forests Eastern Temperate Forests Great Plains North American Deserts Mediterranean California Southern SemiArid Highlands Temperate Sierras Tropical Dry Forests and Tropical Wet Forests

List of ecoregions in North America CEC Wikipedia ~ The Eastern Temperate Forests of North America are a vast and diverse region Stretching inland from the Atlantic coast about 385 miles 620 km they reach from Michigan in the north and Texas in the south they cover the land of New England to Florida Alabama to Michigan and Missouri to the Appalachian Mountains

List of ecoregions in the United States EPA Wikipedia ~ The CEC was established in 1994 by the member states of Canada Mexico and the United States to address regional environmental concerns under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation NAAEC the environmental side accord to the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA

Eastern Deciduous Forest National Park Service ~ In general the lack of fire in eastern forests benefits plants that tolerate shade but are vulnerable to burning These include maples American beech mountain laurel and many others Fire suppression is detrimental to species that tolerate fires but not shade These include oaks hickories and pines