Evaluating salt marsh restoration in Delaware Bay: The response of blue crabs,Callinectes sapidus, at former salt hay farms

Estuaries ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 709-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Jivoff ◽  
Kenneth W. Able
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Callinectes Sapidus ◽  
Delaware Bay ◽  
Blue Crabs ◽  
Salt Marsh Restoration ◽  
Marsh Restoration

Evaluating salt marsh restoration in Delaware Bay: Analysis of Fish response at former salt hay farms

Estuaries ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth W. Able ◽  
David M. Nemerson ◽  
Thomas M. Grothues
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Delaware Bay ◽  
Salt Marsh Restoration ◽  
Marsh Restoration ◽  
Fish Response

Introduction to the Delaware Bay salt marsh restoration

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Teal ◽  
Susan B. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Delaware Bay ◽  
Salt Marsh Restoration ◽  
Marsh Restoration

Salt marsh restoration: an overview of techniques and success indicators

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Masum Billah ◽  
Md Khurshid Alam Bhuiyan ◽  
Mohammad Ahsanul Islam ◽  
Jewel Das ◽  
ATM Rafiqul Hoque
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Salt Marsh Restoration ◽  
Marsh Restoration ◽  
Success Indicators

Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge Marsh Restoration & Shoreline Resilience Project – A Carbon Sequestration Case Study in the Coastal Zone 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aspen Tabar ◽  
Susan Guiteras ◽  
Jeff Tabar
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Delaware Bay ◽  
National Wildlife Refuge ◽  
Vegetation Community ◽  
Marsh Restoration ◽  
Wildlife Refuge

<p>Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge and its adjacent water bodies are important natural features along western Delaware Bay, USA. Historically salt and brackish marsh habitats, portions of the Refuge were diked and managed as freshwater impoundments starting in the early 1980s. Over the past decade, some of these impoundments have reverted to saline conditions, largely due to several storm events (including Hurricane Sandy in 2012) that have caused flooding, erosion, and opened several breaches between the Refuge and Delaware Bay. Because of these significant morphologic changes, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) completed a series of surveys, numerical modeling using Delft3D and coastal engineering analyses to aid in developing restoration alternatives for managing the Refuge and its marshlands. This work will review the results of the strategic planning used to recommend a preferred restoration alternative for managing the Refuge under the new environmental regime aimed at resilience. As a result of this effort, a project for restoring and managing the Refuge was recommended and constructed in 2018. Total cost of the project was $40 million US and was the largest restoration/recovery project authorized to address the impacts of Hurricane Sandy.</p><p>The project included two major components: 1) shoreline reconstruction and 2) marsh restoration.  The shoreline reconstruction portion of the project included placing approximately 1.2 million cubic meters of sand from an offshore borrow area along the shoreline to reconstruction a 12 m wide dune, 45 m beach berm and 30 m back-bay marsh platform (essentially rebuilding the entire barrier island). In addition, the project included a major marsh restoration effort including dredging 48 km of conveyance channels and “thin layer” disposal of 460,000 cubic meters of sediment to create 2,000 hectares of salt marsh.</p><p>Herein will present findings from an analysis using monitoring data and observations to evaluate converting freshwater wetlands to saltwater marshes and the resulting increase in carbon sequestration. As tidal marshes are restored, harmful emissions decline as the project site transforms from a freshwater to a saltwater environment. Therefore, carbon is stored in the soils more readily under tidal marsh conditions. The findings will show the increase in carbon sequestration as a result of the vegetation community response and discuss future projections.  Methodologies used for identifying vegetation community response included:</p><ul><li>Salt Marsh Integrity (SMI) and Saltmarsh Habitat & Avian Research Program (SHARP)</li> <li>Mid-Atlantic Tidal Rapid Assessment Method (MidTRAM)</li> <li>Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)</li> </ul><p>This work will show the importance of incorporating coastal restoration projects and carbon sequestration into policies and management in the coastal zone.</p>

Role of Science and Partnerships in Salt Marsh Restoration at the Galilee Bird Sanctuary, Narragansett, Rhode Island

2012 ◽  
pp. 333-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis C. Golet ◽  
Dennis H. A. Myshrall ◽  
Lawrence R. Oliver ◽  
Peter W. C. Paton ◽  
Brian C. Tefft
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Salt Marsh Restoration ◽  
Marsh Restoration

scholarly journals Water salinity and inundation control soil carbon decomposition during salt marsh restoration: An incubation experiment

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1911-1921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faming Wang ◽  
Kevin D. Kroeger ◽  
Meagan E. Gonneea ◽  
John W. Pohlman ◽  
Jianwu Tang
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Soil Carbon ◽  
Water Salinity ◽  
Control Soil ◽  
Incubation Experiment ◽  
Salt Marsh Restoration ◽  
Marsh Restoration ◽  
Carbon Decomposition

scholarly journals Short-term effect of simulated salt marsh restoration by sand-amendment on sediment bacterial communities

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. e0215767 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Thomas ◽  
James T. Morris ◽  
Cathleen Wigand ◽  
Stefan M. Sievert
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Bacterial Communities ◽  
Term Effect ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Salt Marsh Restoration ◽  
Marsh Restoration ◽  
Short Term Effect ◽  
Sediment Bacterial Communities

scholarly journals Evaluation of salt marsh restoration by means of self-regulating tidal gate – Avon estuary, South Devon, UK

2017 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 174-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerd Masselink ◽  
Mick E. Hanley ◽  
Anissa C. Halwyn ◽  
Will Blake ◽  
Ken Kingston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Salt Marsh Restoration ◽  
Marsh Restoration
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