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Abstract (from USGS Publications Warehouse): The collective set of decisions involved with the restoration of degraded wetlands is often more complex than considering only ecological responses and outcomes. Restoration is commonly driven by a complex interaction of social, economic, and ecological factors representing the mandate of resource stewards and the values of stakeholders. The authors worked with the Herring River Restoration Committee (HRRC) to develop a decision framework to understand the implications of complex tradeoffs and to guide decision making for the restoration of the 1,100-acre Herring River estuary within Cape Cod National Seashore, which has been restricted from tidal influence for more than...
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The Herring River estuary (Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts) has been tidally restricted for over a century by a dike constructed near the mouth of the river. Behind the dike, the tidal restriction has caused the conversion of salt marsh wetlands to various other ecosystems including impounded freshwater marshes, flooded shrub land, drained forested upland, and wetlands dominated by Phragmites australis. This estuary is now managed by the National Park Service, which has plans to replace the dike and restore tidal flow to the estuary. To assist National Park Service land managers with restoration planning, study collaborators have been investigating differences in soil properties, carbon accumulation, and greenhouse...
Tags: Barnstable County (606927),
CTD measurement,
Cape Cod (606914),
Cape Cod National Seashore (606900),
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (606926), All tags...
Geochemistry,
Herring River (616776),
Town of Wellfleet (618261),
United States of America (1890467),
air temperature,
atmospheric pressure,
ecological restoration,
environment,
field experiments,
field inventory and monitoring,
groundwater level,
inlandWaters,
photosynthetically active radiation,
salinity,
salt marshes,
soil temperature,
water level measurements,
water temperature,
wetland ecosystems,
wetland soils,
wetlands, Fewer tags
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