By Alee Knoell Welcome, fellow NERRds, to the second installment of our Species Spotlight series, where our light today shines on Sciaenops ocellatus. S. ocellatus has many aliases: red drum, redfish, red bass, and spot-tailed bass, to name a few. Reaching five feet in length and 90 pounds, the red drum is one of Florida’s…
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To Weed or Not to Weed
By Alee Knoell Welcome, readers, to the first installment of our NERRd-y “Species Spotlight” series! We’re really excited to begin highlighting some of the flora and fauna found within the 74,000+ acres of protected areas of the GTM Research Reserve. Our first species comes from work done on one of our newest long-term monitoring projects:…
NERRds on the Water 