Silliman Drought Cage (IMAGE)

Duke University

Silliman Drought Cage

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This is a dying salt marsh following the extreme 2011 drought in China. Plants inside a crab exclusion cage managed to survive, but others vanished, turning the once lush marshes into a bare salt flat.

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Qiang He

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