Performance Assessment of Three Living Shorelines in Cedar Key, Florida, USA DOI Creative Commons
Savanna C. Barry, Elix Hernández, Mark Clark

et al.

Estuaries and Coasts, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 48(1)

Published: Oct. 30, 2024

Abstract A community-driven effort in Cedar Key, Florida, USA, resulted the construction of three living shoreline retrofits intended to bolster failing coastal infrastructure and restore habitat functions Daughtry Bayou. multi-year monitoring program tracked changes elevation vegetation communities across entire profile from lower-intertidal upland/transitional zones measured wave attenuation during typical extreme (hurricane) conditions. Overall, these served soften more than 30% bayou’s shoreline, dramatically reducing extent armored direct contact with tidal influence. The vegetated area has increased at all sites, despite sediment export higher driven largely by repeated impacts hurricanes tropical storms. These shorelines reduced energy 33 79% conditions up 28% hurricane conditions, consistently outperforming shorelines, even an event (Hurricane Idalia). Our efforts were sufficient capture project trajectories assess performance relative goals, but our had limitations that could have been overcome additional resources focus on capturing spillover effects. retrofit projects assessed here persisted through shown signs recovery after multiple storms hurricanes, while providing important reduction services. Thus, continue be a cost-effective management strategy short term for this area. However, analyses suggest persistence threatened combination sea-level rise (by 2040), upland armoring, increasing risk intense systems. Therefore, future interventions should carefully consider threats conjunction enhancement goals.

Language: Английский

Habitat‐mediated soundscape conservation in marine ecosystems DOI Creative Commons
Kieran Cox, Hailey L. Davies, Audrey Looby

et al.

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 16, 2024

The nexus between changing habitats, faunal communities, and anthropogenic stressors represents an enduring conservation challenge. We propose that habitat‐mediated soundscape conservation—the ability of biogenic habitats to attenuate noise—plays unrecognized role in mitigating underwater noise pollution, a pervasive disturbance disrupts the species perceive acoustic cues communicate. hypothesize attenuation depends on composition physical complexity severe habitat degradation can cause conditions exceed ecological tipping points, resulting emergence alternative states. examine this concept coral reefs kelp forests, given global decline both ecosystems provides requisite investigate our hypothesis. then explore why structures fail provide refugia. Finally, we assess whether restoration or enrichment reestablish natural soundscapes. Our review underscores importance considering when evaluating risk pollutants pose ecosystems.

Language: Английский

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Performance Assessment of Three Living Shorelines in Cedar Key, Florida, USA DOI Creative Commons
Savanna C. Barry, Elix Hernández, Mark Clark

et al.

Estuaries and Coasts, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 48(1)

Published: Oct. 30, 2024

Abstract A community-driven effort in Cedar Key, Florida, USA, resulted the construction of three living shoreline retrofits intended to bolster failing coastal infrastructure and restore habitat functions Daughtry Bayou. multi-year monitoring program tracked changes elevation vegetation communities across entire profile from lower-intertidal upland/transitional zones measured wave attenuation during typical extreme (hurricane) conditions. Overall, these served soften more than 30% bayou’s shoreline, dramatically reducing extent armored direct contact with tidal influence. The vegetated area has increased at all sites, despite sediment export higher driven largely by repeated impacts hurricanes tropical storms. These shorelines reduced energy 33 79% conditions up 28% hurricane conditions, consistently outperforming shorelines, even an event (Hurricane Idalia). Our efforts were sufficient capture project trajectories assess performance relative goals, but our had limitations that could have been overcome additional resources focus on capturing spillover effects. retrofit projects assessed here persisted through shown signs recovery after multiple storms hurricanes, while providing important reduction services. Thus, continue be a cost-effective management strategy short term for this area. However, analyses suggest persistence threatened combination sea-level rise (by 2040), upland armoring, increasing risk intense systems. Therefore, future interventions should carefully consider threats conjunction enhancement goals.

Language: Английский

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