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Backyard Conservation Program
Grant Program Website:
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/newsroom/features/?&ci…Support Agency:
Program Contact:
Maryland Natural Resource Conservation Service
USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service
John Hanson Business Center
339 Busch's Frontage Road, Suite 301
Annapolis, MD 21409-5543
John Hanson Business Center
339 Busch's Frontage Road, Suite 301
Annapolis, MD 21409-5543
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Technical assistancePurpose:
This program adapts conservation practices commonly found on agricultural lands to urban and suburban yards.Support Type:
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Habitat conservation practicesEligibility:
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
