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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Crevice Community Monitoring

Adopt-a-Crevice Community

KHS Environmental Studies class

Top of Monadnock, September 2008

What are Crevice Communities?
Why should we study them?

Crevice communities are the small pockets of vegetation that thrive on rocky terrain on the top of Monadnock. These communities are specifically adapted to the extreme habitat of the mountain, and have gone through many years of succession in order to reach their current level of biodiversity. These pockets of life are often small, and therefore very susceptible to human disturbances, including trampling and climate change. It is important to monitor these communities so we can assess how humans have an impact on the mountain. MERE hopes to monitor these communities for many years in the future, to observe how they are altered by the changing climate and other human impacts.


Join our program!

Engage your students in inquiry-based learning where the results are applied to real world scenarios. We are looking for new middle school and high school classes and teachers who are interested in joining our Adopt-a-Crevice Community research initiative. Participating in the project can help you address many science standards including science process skills, earth space science, life science, science technology, engineering and mathematics grade span expectations. Take the learning outside, while you help us track changes on the summit of Mount Monadnock.

For more information please contact Peter Palmiotto.


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