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The goal of this project is to provide a broader ecological understanding of the ways in which the breaches and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) breach-fill projects affect piping plover populations, their red fox predators and their invertebrate prey communities. Virginia Tech (VT) compared the dynamics of bird use and invertebrate densities in an open breach area, two filled breach areas, two restoration areas, overwash areas, and other areas. Ultimately VT results will help refine their understanding of the time frame and manner in which piping plover habitat develops and persists.The work described in this report was funded under the Breach Contingency Plan (BCP; USACE 1996), the Fire Island Inlet to Moriches...
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Fire Island,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov,
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barrier islands,
beach restoration,
beaches,
coastal bay,
coastal change,
coastal ecosystems,
completed,
red fox,
shorebirds, Fewer tags
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This study aids in developing a synergistic ecological-coastal resiliency framework for a significant portion of the coastal habitat on Fire Island. It is envisioned that the study will provide key information on beach restoration, management and conservation actions for other beach dependent species, in addition to the federally-listed piping plover, along the entire south shore barrier island system chain. The three major goals of this project are: (1) Intensive field work monitoring the piping plover population west of the new inlet in the Federal Wilderness Area, thereby greatly increasing the range of habitat conditions that can be assessed for resiliency under both natural processes and coastal stabilization....
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Project;
Tags: 2014,
Applications and Tools,
Conservation Planning,
Federal resource managers,
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LCC Network Science Catalog,
NALCC,
North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
Project,
USFWS SA R5 Project,
completed,
environment,
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