Widening the Road in a Tropical Country with Scale

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This photo was taken in 2009 after a mountain road had been widened. The small layer of soil supporting the diverse tropical rainforest is observable. The road was widened from a single car road to a road that could easily handle two-way traffic and up to three cars in some areas. A single lane track of road runs along the right side of the photograph. One of the streams runs along the mountain off to the right of this photograph. Contains one of the researchers for scale.

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Primary or BEN resource type	Photograph
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Format	jpeg
Temporal and geographic description	2009, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies
Is Part Of	Degradation of a Tropical Stream
Collection Link	http://esa.org/ecoed/folders/0253/degradationofatropicalstream
Ecological Core Concept	Human impacts Ecosystems
Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services Collection	Off
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection	Off
Big Data Collection	Off
Editor's Choice	No
Audience	Grades 6 - 8 Grades 9 - 12 Undergraduate lower division 13-14 Undergraduate upper division 15-16
Pedagogical Use Description	Can be used as part of a series of photographs to show the increased level of sediment within the streams after road construction. Can also be used to show the soil structure underneath a tropical rainforest.
Keywords	Tropical rainforest, Tropical streams, Human Impact
Life science discipline (subject)	Ecology
Primary Author Controlled Name	Christopher Stieha
Primary Author Affiliation	Cornell University Department of Entomology Ithaca, NY 14853
Primary Author email	stieha@hotmail.com
Secondary Author Name(s)	D. Nicholas McLetchie
Secondary Author Affiliation(s)	University of Kentucky Department of Biology Lexington, KY 40506
Submitter Name	Christopher Stieha
Submitter Email	stieha@hotmail.com
Rights	CC-NC-SA
Reviewer A	Unknown
Reviewer B	Unknown
Date Of Record Submission	2012-09-11

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