Evidence for Ecosystem Changes Within a Temperate Lagoon Following a Hurricane-Induced Barrier Island Breach

Olin, Jill A.; Cerrato, Robert M.; Nye, Janet A.; Sagarese, Skyler R.; Sclafani, Matthew; Zacharias, Joshua P.; Frisk, Michael

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“…Such concepts include resistance and resilience of populations to disturbance (sensu Bellingham et al , Batista and Platt ) that results in direct regeneration of community composition and structure (sensu Boucher , Boucher et al , , Yih et al , Vandermeer et al , , Dietze and Clark , Lin et al , Imbert ). The direct regeneration hypothesis, that communities are likely to return to pre‐disturbance conditions following disruption, emerged primarily from empirical study of sedentary organisms in forested ecosystems (Lugo , Keppel et al , Xi , Imbert , Ibanez et al ) and marine coral reef and intertidal systems (Harmelin‐Vivien , Connell , Lugo et al , Greening et al , Gouezo et al , Mathews and Maccarone , Olin et al ). Development of concepts related to effects of tropical cyclones on natural systems thus should benefit from studies of different types of systems.…”

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Effects of a tropical cyclone on salt marsh insect communities and post‐cyclone reassembly processes

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Concepts regarding effects of recurrent natural disturbances and subsequent responses of communities are central to ecology and conservation biology. Tropical cyclones constitute major disturbances producing direct effects (damage, mortality) in many coastal communities worldwide. Subsequent reassembly involves changes in composition and abundance for which the underlying mechanisms (deterministic and stochastic processes) are still not clear, especially for mobile organisms. We examined tropical cyclone-induced changes in composition and reassembly of entire insect communities in 16 Louisiana coastal salt marshes before and after Hurricane Isaac in 2012 and 2013. We used the Shannon index and multivariate permutational ANOVA to study insect resistance and resilience, β diversity partitioning to evaluate the importance of species replacement, and null models to disentangle the relative roles of different assembly processes over time after the tropical cyclone. The α diversity and species composition, overall and for different trophic levels, decreased immediately after the tropical cyclone; nonetheless, both then increased rapidly and returned to pre-cyclone states within one year. Changes in species abundance, rather than species replacement, was the primary driver, accounting for most temporal dissimilarity among insect communities. Stochastic processes, which drove community composition immediately after the tropical cyclone, decreased in importance over time. Our study indicates that rapid reformation of insect communities involved sequential landscape-level dynamics. Cyclone-resistant life cycle stages apparently survived in some, perhaps random locations within the overall salt marsh landscape. Subsequently, stochastic patterns of immigration of mobile life cycle stages resulted in rapid reformation of local communities. Post-cyclone direct regeneration of salt marsh insect communities resulted from low resistance, coupled with high landscape-level resilience via re-immigration. Our study suggests that the extent of direct regeneration of local salt marsh insect communities might change with the size of larger marsh landscapes within which they are imbedded.

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Effects of a tropical cyclone on salt marsh insect communities and post‐cyclone reassembly processes

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“…The Great South Bay (GSB), New York, US is a highly productive temperate lagoon that provides critical stopover habitat and food resources for many juvenile life-history stages of marine finfish, especially during the summer and early fall (Olin et al, 2019;Tinoco, 2017).…”

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Telemetry‐validated nitrogen stable isotope clocks identify ocean‐to‐estuarine habitat shifts in mobile organisms

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“…Two of the three breaches were closed immediately after the storm, but a breach that developed in the area of the Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness remained open to the Great South Bay due to its wilderness designation. Allowing this breach to remain open created an opportunity for the NPS to study the effects of breaches not only on the island itself but the surrounding Great South Bay (Gobler et al 2019;Hinrichs et al 2018, Olin et al 2019. The long-term monitoring and baseline research collected both before and after the storm supported the extensive environmental impact statement developed to help guide whether the NPS should keep the Fire Island Wilderness breach open or manually close it (NPS 2018).…”

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“…Burdick et al (2019) provide an evaluation of a management tool, ditch remediation, one of a range of restoration techniques tested post-Hurricane Sandy, with the idea that restored salt marshes can better trap sediment and increase organic matter production, thus will be more resilient. Olin et al (2019) explore the response of the Great South Bay, NY, following the breach of Fire Island, studying nekton and community assemblages. Olin et al (2019), along with many other studies, including Hinrichs et al (2018) and Gobler et al (2019), informed the Environmental Impact Statement recommendations (NPS 2018) for the Fire Island Wilderness breach.…”

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“…Olin et al (2019) explore the response of the Great South Bay, NY, following the breach of Fire Island, studying nekton and community assemblages. Olin et al (2019), along with many other studies, including Hinrichs et al (2018) and Gobler et al (2019), informed the Environmental Impact Statement recommendations (NPS 2018) for the Fire Island Wilderness breach. As other barrier islands breach in future storms, having the experience of monitoring the water quality, geomorphic response, and ecosystem benefits documented by allowing the Fire Island breach to remain open may help shape future decision-making, as well as monitoring plans.…”

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Coastal Impacts, Recovery, and Resilience Post-Hurricane Sandy in the Northeastern US

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Post-Hurricane Sandy research has improved our understanding of coastal resilience during major storm events, accelerated sea level rise, and other climate-related factors, helping to enhance science-based decision-making, restoration, and management of coastal systems. The central question this special section examines is: “looking across the breadth of research, natural resource management actions and restoration projects post-Hurricane Sandy, what can we say about coastal impact, recovery, and resilience to prepare for increasing impacts of future storms?” These five studies, along with lessons from other published and unpublished research, advance our understanding beyond just the documentation of hurricane impacts but also highlights both natural and managed recovery, thereby advancing the developing field of coastal resilience.

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Evidence for Ecosystem Changes Within a Temperate Lagoon Following a Hurricane-Induced Barrier Island Breach

Cited by 11 publications

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Effects of a tropical cyclone on salt marsh insect communities and post‐cyclone reassembly processes

Effects of a tropical cyclone on salt marsh insect communities and post‐cyclone reassembly processes

Telemetry‐validated nitrogen stable isotope clocks identify ocean‐to‐estuarine habitat shifts in mobile organisms

Coastal Impacts, Recovery, and Resilience Post-Hurricane Sandy in the Northeastern US

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