Mapping Antebellum Rice Fields as a Basis for Understanding Human and Ecological Consequences of the Era of Slavery

Hanks, R. Daniel; Baldwin, Robert F.; Folk, Travis Hayes; Wiggers, Ernie P.; Coen, Richard H.; Gouin, Michael L.; Agha, Andrew; Richter, Daniel; Fields-Black, Edda L.

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“…Hanks et al (2021) digitized historic rice fields across South Carolina, providing the first accurate account of MTI, unmanaged broken tidal impoundment, and inland historic rice field acreages. Their data facilitated landscape‐level determination of waterbird selection for these ecologically and culturally important historical wetlands across the entire coastal and select inland regions of South Carolina.…”

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“…Conversely, inland historic rice fields are prime candidates for protection and restoration practically and legally because they maintain infrastructure from historic rice cultivation (i.e. levees, ditches, canals), infrastructural blueprints exist, and these fields are buffered from storm surges and located farther from navigable waters (Folk 2018 c ; Hanks et al 2021). Thus, historic inland rice fields should be prioritized for legal protection and restored to active management capabilities (Folk 2018 c ; Fields‐Black et al 2022).…”

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“…Next, we extracted forested and scrub-shrub (scrub-shrub), freshwater emergent, herbaceous, and pond wetlands (emergent), and estuarine and marine (estuarine/marine) wetlands from the National Wetlands Inventory (NWI; Table 1). Last, we used Lidar-digitized data of historic rice fields (HRFs) in South Carolina (Hanks et al 2021). The HRFs were classified as (1) abandoned and reverted to natural vegetative successional dynamics (i.e.…”

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“…broken tidal fields); or (3) maintained and restored in the 20th and 21st centuries, primarily for waterfowl hunting (i.e. tidal functional fields or MTIs; Hanks et al 2021). We assigned pixel classes hierarchically, beginning with historic rice fields, then CDL/NLCD land cover, and lastly NWI wetlands (eight land cover classes; Table 1; Fig.…”

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“…List of variables and their data sources including the CDL,Hanks et al (2021), the NWI, the PAD-US, and the R package "landscapemetrics. "…”

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Waterbird–habitat relationships in South Carolina: implications for protection, restoration, and management of coastal and inland wetlands

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South Carolina coastal and inland wetlands are continentally important to resident, migrating, and wintering dabbling ducks (Anatini), diving and sea ducks (Aythini, Mergini, Oxyurini), pelagic waterbirds (Anhingidae, Laridae, Pelicanidae, and Phalcrocoracidae), and wading birds (Ardeidaie, Ciconiidae, Threskiornithidae). Our goal was to model wetland selection of these waterbird guilds in South Carolina during autumn–winter to determine habitat preferences and guide wetland conservation and restoration amid sea‐level rise and other coastal pressures. We conducted aerial surveys and recorded waterbird occurrence and relative abundance in winters 2017–2019. We modeled waterbird–habitat relationships relative to managed and unmanaged coastal and inland wetlands, legally protected conservation lands (e.g. federal, state, and private easements), and habitat diversity. Waterbirds selected a variety of wetlands emphasizing the importance of wetland diversity within habitat complexes. However, only managed tidal impoundments (MTIs) and protected conservation lands were selected across all waterbird guilds. Results suggest these are contemporary keystone habitats for promoting wintering waterbird abundance and diversity in South Carolina and other South Atlantic coastal regions. To compensate for future coastal wetland loss while facilitating the current and future needs of migrating and wintering waterbirds, we recommend: (1) identification and continued management of MTIs resilient to sea‐level rise; (2) strategic planning and partnerships for land acquisition and legal protections inland; and (3) land protection networks between extant coastal and inland sites designated for future construction and emigration of decommissioned MTIs. Stakeholder and partner engagement is paramount to prioritize resource allocation for the restoration, construction, and decommissioning of coastal and inland wetlands.

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Resilience of Coupled Socio-Ecological Systems: Historic Rice Fields of the U.S. South

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While resilience is defined differentially by social scientists and ecologists, sustainability is possible where resilient social and ecological systems meet and interact, and sustainable resilient systems promote societal use of ecosystem services supporting contemporary societal needs without risk to future generations. Yet it is possible for seemingly appropriate and rational decisions from individuals, and society at large, to be counter to long-term sustainable solutions. Historic rice field cultivation in the wetlands of the Carolinas and Florida provides an example of various forms of resilience and sustainability within the theoretical framework of alternate stable states, whereby a resilient system can exist in more than one state and where stability is achieved when disruptive variables are not so disruptive as to generate tipping points from one state to another. This contribution examines the changing role and political as well as environmental impacts of rice agriculture in the region with particular emphasis on the contingent processes of environmental and cultural transformation that took place between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries.

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Locating and Mapping Archaeological Rice Cultivation Artifacts Associated with the Gullah Geechee Tradition Using Visual Observations and Side Scan Sonar

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Mapping Antebellum Rice Fields as a Basis for Understanding Human and Ecological Consequences of the Era of Slavery

Cited by 7 publications

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Waterbird–habitat relationships in South Carolina: implications for protection, restoration, and management of coastal and inland wetlands

Waterbird–habitat relationships in South Carolina: implications for protection, restoration, and management of coastal and inland wetlands

Resilience of Coupled Socio-Ecological Systems: Historic Rice Fields of the U.S. South

Locating and Mapping Archaeological Rice Cultivation Artifacts Associated with the Gullah Geechee Tradition Using Visual Observations and Side Scan Sonar

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