Journal ArticleRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation · August 1, 2023
Physical structures generated from ecosystem engineers can have a cascade of impacts on the ecological community and the surrounding landscape. The Eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica can form extensive intertidal reefs, whose three-dimensional structures ...
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Journal ArticleRemote Sensing · May 1, 2022
Eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) are an important component of the ecology and economy in coastal zones. Through the long-term consolidation of densely clustered shells, oyster reefs generate three-dimensional and complex structures that yield a sui ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in Remote Sensing · January 1, 2022
Coastal wetlands of the Southeastern United States host a high abundance and diversity of critical species and provide essential ecosystem services. A rise in threats to these vulnerable habitats has led to an increased focus on research and monitoring in ...
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Journal ArticleEstuaries and Coasts · December 1, 2021
Intertidal oyster reefs are typically restored to offset the loss of reef-associated ecosystem services (e.g., improved water quality, shoreline stabilization, and fish habitat), but the scale of enhanced services is predicated on the health and growth of ...
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Journal ArticleRemote Sensing · October 1, 2021
The ability to accurately classify land cover in periods before appropriate training and validation data exist is a critical step towards understanding subtle long-term impacts of climate change. These trends cannot be properly understood and distinguished ...
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Journal ArticleRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation · December 1, 2020
It is increasingly important to understand the extent and health of coastal natural resources in the face of anthropogenic and climate-driven changes. Coastal ecosystems are difficult to efficiently monitor due to the inability of existing remotely sensed ...
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Journal ArticleDrones · December 1, 2020
Many coastal shark species are known to use estuaries of the coastal southeastern United States for essential purposes like foraging, reproducing, and protection from predation. Temperate estuarine landscapes, such as the Rachel Carson Reserve (RCR) in Bea ...
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Journal ArticleScientific reports · November 2020
Barrier island overwash occurs when the elevation of wave runup exceeds the dune crest and induces landward transport of sediment across a barrier island and deposition of a washover deposit. Washover deposition is generally attributed to major storms, is ...
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Journal ArticleMarine Geology · July 1, 2020
Dune erosion principally occurs when water level exceeds the elevation of the beach and predicting erosion is progressively becoming more important for management as coastal populations increase, sea level rises, and storms become more powerful. This study ...
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Journal ArticleRemote Sensing · July 1, 2020
Salt marshes provide important services to coastal ecosystems in the southeastern United States. In many locations, salt marsh habitats are threatened by coastal development and erosion, necessitating large-scale monitoring. Assessing vegetation height acr ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in Marine Science · June 12, 2020
Assessing, implementing and monitoring ecosystem restoration can be a labor intensive process, often short term (<3 years), and potentially destructive to the habitat. Advances in remote sensing technology are generating rapid, non-destructive methods for ...
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Journal ArticleRestoration Ecology · November 1, 2019
Restoration is increasingly implemented as a strategy to mitigate global declines in biogenic habitats, such as salt marshes and oyster reefs. Restoration efforts could be improved if we knew how site characteristics at landscape scales affect the ecologic ...
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Journal ArticleRemote Sensing · October 1, 2019
Oysters support an economically important fishery in many locations in the United States and provide benefits to the surrounding environment by filtering water, providing habitat for fish, and stabilizing shorelines. Changes in oyster reef health reflect v ...
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Journal ArticleGeomorphology · August 15, 2019
Inlet Barrier Islands (IBIs) are infrequently studied, and are often poorly represented in coastal lidar records. The fetch limited barrier island (FLBI) model was introduced to describe geomorphic changes of IBIs over time. The FLBI model predicts that th ...
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Journal ArticleRemote Sensing · August 1, 2018
Very high-resolution satellite imagery (≤5 m resolution) has become available on a spatial and temporal scale appropriate for dynamic wetland management and conservation across large areas. Estuarine wetlands have the potential to be mapped at a detailed h ...
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Journal ArticleEstuaries and Coasts · May 1, 2018
Foundation species regulate communities by reducing environmental stress and providing habitat for other species. Successful restoration of biogenic habitats often depends on restoring foundation species at appropriate spatial scales within a suitable rang ...
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Journal ArticleEcology and evolution · December 2017
Ecosystems at the land-sea interface are vulnerable to rising sea level. Intertidal habitats must maintain their surface elevations with respect to sea level to persist via vertical growth or landward retreat, but projected rates of sea-level rise may exce ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences · July 2017
Carbon burial is increasingly valued as a service provided by threatened vegetated coastal habitats. Similarly, shellfish reefs contain significant pools of carbon and are globally endangered, yet considerable uncertainty remains regarding shellfish reefs' ...
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Journal ArticleEstuaries and Coasts · July 1, 2017
The importance of intertidal estuarine habitats, like salt marsh and oyster reef, has been well established, as has their ubiquitous loss along our coasts with resultant forfeiture of the ecosystem services they provide. Furthering our understanding of how ...
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Journal ArticleRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation · August 1, 2023
Physical structures generated from ecosystem engineers can have a cascade of impacts on the ecological community and the surrounding landscape. The Eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica can form extensive intertidal reefs, whose three-dimensional structures ...
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Journal ArticleRemote Sensing · May 1, 2022
Eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) are an important component of the ecology and economy in coastal zones. Through the long-term consolidation of densely clustered shells, oyster reefs generate three-dimensional and complex structures that yield a sui ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleFrontiers in Remote Sensing · January 1, 2022
Coastal wetlands of the Southeastern United States host a high abundance and diversity of critical species and provide essential ecosystem services. A rise in threats to these vulnerable habitats has led to an increased focus on research and monitoring in ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleEstuaries and Coasts · December 1, 2021
Intertidal oyster reefs are typically restored to offset the loss of reef-associated ecosystem services (e.g., improved water quality, shoreline stabilization, and fish habitat), but the scale of enhanced services is predicated on the health and growth of ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleRemote Sensing · October 1, 2021
The ability to accurately classify land cover in periods before appropriate training and validation data exist is a critical step towards understanding subtle long-term impacts of climate change. These trends cannot be properly understood and distinguished ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation · December 1, 2020
It is increasingly important to understand the extent and health of coastal natural resources in the face of anthropogenic and climate-driven changes. Coastal ecosystems are difficult to efficiently monitor due to the inability of existing remotely sensed ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleDrones · December 1, 2020
Many coastal shark species are known to use estuaries of the coastal southeastern United States for essential purposes like foraging, reproducing, and protection from predation. Temperate estuarine landscapes, such as the Rachel Carson Reserve (RCR) in Bea ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleScientific reports · November 2020
Barrier island overwash occurs when the elevation of wave runup exceeds the dune crest and induces landward transport of sediment across a barrier island and deposition of a washover deposit. Washover deposition is generally attributed to major storms, is ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleMarine Geology · July 1, 2020
Dune erosion principally occurs when water level exceeds the elevation of the beach and predicting erosion is progressively becoming more important for management as coastal populations increase, sea level rises, and storms become more powerful. This study ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleRemote Sensing · July 1, 2020
Salt marshes provide important services to coastal ecosystems in the southeastern United States. In many locations, salt marsh habitats are threatened by coastal development and erosion, necessitating large-scale monitoring. Assessing vegetation height acr ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleFrontiers in Marine Science · June 12, 2020
Assessing, implementing and monitoring ecosystem restoration can be a labor intensive process, often short term (<3 years), and potentially destructive to the habitat. Advances in remote sensing technology are generating rapid, non-destructive methods for ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleRestoration Ecology · November 1, 2019
Restoration is increasingly implemented as a strategy to mitigate global declines in biogenic habitats, such as salt marshes and oyster reefs. Restoration efforts could be improved if we knew how site characteristics at landscape scales affect the ecologic ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleRemote Sensing · October 1, 2019
Oysters support an economically important fishery in many locations in the United States and provide benefits to the surrounding environment by filtering water, providing habitat for fish, and stabilizing shorelines. Changes in oyster reef health reflect v ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleGeomorphology · August 15, 2019
Inlet Barrier Islands (IBIs) are infrequently studied, and are often poorly represented in coastal lidar records. The fetch limited barrier island (FLBI) model was introduced to describe geomorphic changes of IBIs over time. The FLBI model predicts that th ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleRemote Sensing · August 1, 2018
Very high-resolution satellite imagery (≤5 m resolution) has become available on a spatial and temporal scale appropriate for dynamic wetland management and conservation across large areas. Estuarine wetlands have the potential to be mapped at a detailed h ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleEstuaries and Coasts · May 1, 2018
Foundation species regulate communities by reducing environmental stress and providing habitat for other species. Successful restoration of biogenic habitats often depends on restoring foundation species at appropriate spatial scales within a suitable rang ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleEcology and evolution · December 2017
Ecosystems at the land-sea interface are vulnerable to rising sea level. Intertidal habitats must maintain their surface elevations with respect to sea level to persist via vertical growth or landward retreat, but projected rates of sea-level rise may exce ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences · July 2017
Carbon burial is increasingly valued as a service provided by threatened vegetated coastal habitats. Similarly, shellfish reefs contain significant pools of carbon and are globally endangered, yet considerable uncertainty remains regarding shellfish reefs' ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleEstuaries and Coasts · July 1, 2017
The importance of intertidal estuarine habitats, like salt marsh and oyster reef, has been well established, as has their ubiquitous loss along our coasts with resultant forfeiture of the ecosystem services they provide. Furthering our understanding of how ...
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Journal ArticleEstuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science · October 5, 2015
Saltmarshes are carbon storage hotspots and help to offset anthropogenic carbon emissions; however, marshes are threatened by sea-level rise, erosion, and human development. Recent efforts to constrain the saltmarsh carbon cycle have focused on the process ...
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Journal ArticleScientific reports · October 2015
Within intertidal communities, aerial exposure (emergence during the tidal cycle) generates strong vertical zonation patterns with distinct growth boundaries regulated by physiological and external stressors. Forecasted accelerations in sea-level rise (SLR ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Applied Ecology · October 1, 2014
Gradients in competition and predation that regulate communities should guide biogenic habitat restoration, while restoration ecology provides opportunities to address fundamental questions regarding food web dynamics via large-scale field manipulations. W ...
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Journal ArticleEos · February 4, 2014
The need to communicate scientific research beyond academia is increasing concurrently with a growing emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in K-12 education [Breiner et al., 2012]. Connecting scientists with K-12 educators w ...
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Journal ArticleNature Climate Change · January 1, 2014
In the high-salinity seaward portions of estuaries, oysters seek refuge from predation, competition and disease in intertidal areas, but this sanctuary will be lost if vertical reef accretion cannot keep pace with sea-level rise (SLR). Oyster-reef abundanc ...
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Journal ArticleEstuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science · January 20, 2013
The frequency of island overwash is commonly assumed to be the main factor regulating sand flux to backbarrier marshes; however, aeolian transport of sand across a barrier has received little attention in saltmarsh research. The contribution of aeolian san ...
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Journal ArticleGeomorphology · November 15, 2011
This paper describes the construction and application of a new field instrument, a Gauged Sediment Trap (GaST). Our GaST measures and captures aeolian-transported sediment, can be deployed for long periods of time (weeks), is easy to construct, and is extr ...
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