Download or read book An Assessment of Marsh Change and the Potential Impacts of Hurricane Sandy on Salt Marsh at Milford Point Milford CT written by Desirae Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overdevelopment of coastal areas leads to salt marsh deterioration, hindering its ability to regulate sea level rise, wave energy, and storm events. This study assesed marsh change and the potential impacts of Huricane Sandy on salt marsh at Milford Point, extending the work done by Stephen Jonas (2004) and Justin Goggins (2010). in conclusion, the hurricane had a positive impact on marsh vegetation development and growth.
Download or read book Characterization of a Newly Formed Salt Marsh and the Potential Contribution of Storms to Its Development Milford Point Milford CT written by Stephan F. Jonas and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessment and Characterization of Salt Marshes in the Arthur Kill New York and New Jersey Replanted After a Severe Oil Spill written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building Salt Marshes Along the Coasts of the Continental United States written by William Walton Woodhouse (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive report on coastal marsh creation in the United States. It provides potential users with an analysis and interpretation of the available information on this subject. The role of marshes, the feasibility of marsh creation, and the effects of elevation, salinity, slope, exposure, and soils on marsh establishment are discussed. Plants suitable for marsh building are described by the major regions. Plant propagation, planting, fertilization, and management of the major plants are discussed. Labor and material requirements for marsh creation are summarized. Keywords: Coastal engineering; Gulf coast; Planting; East Coast; West Coast; Grasses; Wetland plants; Transplantation; Sediment accumulation; Marsh soils; Florida; Marsh building; Marsh vegetation; Stabilization. (EDC)
Download or read book Aligning Salt Marsh Conservation and Hazard Mitigation Objectives in a Changing Climate written by Christine C. Shepard and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Impacts on Salt Marshes written by Brian R. Silliman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Human Impacts on Salt Marshes provides an excellent global synthesis of an important, underappreciated environmental problem and suggests solutions to the diverse threats affecting salt marshes."—Peter B. Moyle, University of California, Davis
Download or read book Response of a Salt Marsh to Oil Spill and Cleanup written by Phillip C. Dibner and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecology and Management of Tidal MarshesA Model from the Gulf of Mexico written by Charles L. Coultas and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-03-07 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major compendium of the existing knowledge of the ecology and management of tidal marshes by some of the leading experts in the field. The major theme of the book is the interconnectedness of the marsh, plants, marine organisms, soils and geology, energy and money flow, and legal and management effects on the system. Emphasis is placed throughout on the fact that nature has provided a free service that can either be maintained and enhanced by man or destroyed and forever lost. At a time of declining fisheries, this book points the way to management strategies that are needed to effect improvement.
Download or read book Numerical Modeling of the Effects of Hurricane Sandy and Potential Future Hurricanes on Spatial Patterns of Salt Marsh Morphology in Jamaica Bay New York City written by Hongqing Wang and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Salt Marshes written by Duncan M. FitzGerald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salt marshes are highly dynamic and important ecosystems that dampen impacts of coastal storms and are an integral part of tidal wetland systems, which sequester half of all global marine carbon. They are now being threatened due to sea-level rise, decreased sediment influx, and human encroachment. This book provides a comprehensive review of the latest salt marsh science, investigating their functions and how they are responding to stresses through formation of salt pannes and pools, headward erosion of tidal creeks, marsh-edge erosion, ice-fracturing, and ice-rafted sedimentation. Written by experts in marsh ecology, coastal geomorphology, wetland biology, estuarine hydrodynamics, and coastal sedimentation, it provides a multidisciplinary summary of recent advancements in our knowledge of salt marshes. The future of wetlands and potential deterioration of salt marshes is also considered, providing a go-to reference for graduate students and researchers studying these coastal systems, as well as marsh managers and restoration scientists.
Download or read book The Ecology of a Salt Marsh written by L. R. Pomeroy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecologists have two long-standing ways to study large ecosystems such as lakes, forests, and salt-marsh estuaries. In the first, which G. E. Hutchinson has called the holological approach, the whole ecosystem is first studied as a "black box," and its components are investigated as needed. In the second, which Hutchinson has called the merological approach, the parts of the system are studied first, and an attempt is then made to build up the whole from them. For long-term studies, the holological approach has special advantages, since the general patterns and tentative hypotheses that are first worked out help direct attention to the components of the system which need to be studied in greater detail. In this approach, teams of investigators focus on major func tions and hypotheses and thereby coordinate their independent study efforts. Thus, although there have been waves, as it were, of investigators and graduate students working on different aspects of the Georgia salt-marsh estuaries (personnel at the Marine Institute on Sapelo Island changes every few years), the emphasis on the holo logical approach has resulted in a highly differentiated and well-coordinated long-term study. Very briefly, the history of the salt-marsh studies can be outlined as follows. First, the general patterns of food chains and other energy flows in the marshes and creeks were worked out, and the nature of imports and exports to and from the system and its subsystems were delimited.
Download or read book Supplemental Environmental Assessment Marsh Island Salt Marsh Restoration Project Fairhaven Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Supplemental Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), on behalf of the New Bedford Harbor Trustee Council (NBHTC), to provide information to the public regarding potential sitespecific impacts of the proposed Marsh Island Salt Marsh Restoration Project. The two restoration alternatives considered by the NBHTC and presented in this document are the proposed action, the Marsh Island Salt Marsh Restoration Project, and a no action alternative, as required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)"--Executive summary (page i).
Download or read book Patterns and Processes of Saltmarsh Area Change at Three Spatial Scales written by Cai Ladd and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patterns and Processes of Saltmarsharea Change at Three Spatial Scales written by Cai J. T. Ladd and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecosystems around the globe are being degraded by anthropogenic activity. Coastalecosystems are considered especially vulnerable given that human populations areconcentrated at the coast. Extensive areas of saltmarsh habitat have already been lost to landreclamation, and the continued existence of natural marsh systems is in question.Understanding how saltmarsh plants interact within a changing coastal environment is seen asa vital step in protecting remaining habitat and delivering successful restoration. This thesisexamines patterns of saltmarsh change across Great Britain (GB), and the biological andenvironmental drivers responsible for change, in order to better understand marsh persistence.Studies have tended to assess marsh persistence based on their capacity to grow verticallywith sea level rise. Long-term horizontal marsh dynamics are often overlooked. Chapter 2examines 100 years of saltmarsh area change across GB and found that sea level rise andsediment supply determined whether saltmarshes expanded or eroded. All marshes werekeeping pace with sea level rise, highlighting the importance of considering horizontaldynamics in long-term marsh change.Identifying the limits on horizontal saltmarsh growth onto tidal flats has been valuable inassessing potential impacts of coastal change on open-coast marsh systems, however little workhas been done on identifying limits of marsh extent within estuaries. Chapter 3 examinessaltmarsh extent change between 1948 and 2013 in three sheltered estuaries along western GB,and shows that changes in the position of tidal channels limited marsh extent. Channelsperiodically migrated across the estuary causing marsh erosion. On the opposite bank, marshestended to expand, indicating the capacity of marshes to cycle between phases of expansion anderosion retaining a dynamic persistence within estuaries.Horizontal erosion of saltmarsh creeks causes vegetated marsh debris to accumulate at thecreek base. Indications are that these deposits limit further erosion and promote recoverythrough trapping sediment if they persist. However, biotic and abiotic controls on debrislongevity are unclear. Chapter 4 examines monthly creek change over a year and shows thatfailed bank debris with high root content slow debris erosion rates, thereby promoting sedimenttrapping and recovery. Thus, plant growth plays an important role on saltmarsh stability.By investigating marsh change over different spatio-temporal scales, a picture emerges ofhow biological and environmental drivers collectively influence change in saltmarsh extent.This offers important insight into how management interventions could target the drivers ofmarsh change at each scale in order to build marsh resilience, and is discussed in chapter 5.
Download or read book Seasons of the Salt Marsh written by David Alan Gates and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a useful handbook for the field-naturalist and an illumination exploration for the layman of an unappreciated part of our land is "Seasons of the Salt Marsh." Because the tidal salt marsh is neither land nor sea, life within its confines must be equipped with a marvelous adaptability, not only to the changing seasons, but to the daily rise and fall of the tides that alternately flood and expose its surface. Gates examines its fertile habitat, development since the last ice age, the interaction of its plants and animals, and the abiding importance of the total ecosystem.
Download or read book Salt Marsh Trends in Selected Estuaries of Southwestern Connecticut written by Ralph W. Tiner and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Island Studies (LIS) Program of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has noticed the habitat changes indicative of sea-level rise in many coastal wetlands. In 2005, DEP provided funds to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct a trends analysis of selected salt marshes along the southwestern coast of the state to document habitat changes.
Download or read book Life and Death of the Salt Marsh written by John Teal and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1969 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how these marshes developed, what kinds of life inhabit them, how enormously they have contributed to man, and how ruthlessly man is destroying them, for instance, the BP oil spill.
