Browsing by Subject "wetlands"
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Nature-based Urban Flood Resilience: a policy analysis of natural flood mitigation measures in sea level rise planning in New Orleans, New York City, and San Francisco
(2017-08-18)Sea level rise (SLR) and severe weather events have already exposed the vulnerability of coastal cities to flood events. Regional planning bodies are developing comprehensive plans to build resiliency utilizing both hardened ... -
Physical and Program Options for the Inland Migration of Louisiana's Coastal Wetlands in Response to Relative Sea Level Rise
(2012-04-26)Louisiana contains over a third of the coastal wetlands in the contiguous U.S., but has seen a drastic reduction in total wetland area in the last century. This loss is especially troubling for coastal Louisiana where wetlands ... -
Physical and Program Options for the Inland Migration of Louisiana’s Coastal Wetlands in Response to Relative Sea Level Rise
(2012-04-26)Louisiana contains over a third of the coastal wetlands in the contiguous US, but has seen a drastic reduction in total wetland area in the last century. This loss is especially troubling for coastal Louisiana where wetlands ... -
Quantifying and Prioritizing Opportunities for Canal Backfilling in Louisiana
(2014-04-25)Canal backfilling-degrading and replacing the spoil adjacent to canals-has a wide range of potential benefits for the restoration of Louisiana coastal wetlands, but is not incorporated into current coastwide-scale restoration ... -
Top-down control of methane emission and nitrogen cycling by waterfowl.
(Ecology, 2017-01)Aquatic herbivores impose top-down control on the structure of wetland ecosystems, but the biogeochemical consequences of herbivory on methane (CH4 ) and nitrogen (N) are poorly known. To investigate the top-down effects ... -
UNOCCUPIED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM APPLICATIONS FOR SALT MARSH SHORELINES: A HANDBOOK
(2019-04-25)Salt marshes provide coastal storm protection, fishery habitat, water filtration, carbon storage, and ecotourism. While estimated at 3.8 million acres in the U.S., salt marsh habitats have declined rapidly over the last ...
