Seagrass Recovery in Tampa Bay, Florida (USA)

Greening, Holly; Janicki, Anthony; Sherwood, Edward T.

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4001-3_269

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“…After system‐wide improvements in numerical water transparency, chlorophyll‐ a concentration, and total N loading rates, seagrass acreage in 2014 exceeded recovery goals established in 1996 based on 1950s benchmark levels (WebTable 1; Greening et al . 2016). Similarly, in the Florida Everglades, multiple lines of evidence collected over three decades indicate that the effects of water management and restoration projects on food availability during the nesting season are key contributors to nesting success and the sustainability of wading bird populations (WebTable 1; Beerens et al .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Low‐impact development such as stormwater green infrastructure provides opportunities for the management of rivers, stormwater, and treated‐sewage runoff to support ecosystem restoration (Greening et al . 2016). Rain gardens, bioretention, and vegetated roofs moderate runoff events and associated nutrient loads (Pennino et al .…”

Section: Spatial Cumulative Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Applying cumulative effects to strategically advance large‐scale ecosystem restoration

Diefenderfer

Steyer

Harwell

et al. 2020

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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A lthough the common foundations of site-scale ecosystem restoration are well understood, the spatial scale and duration of restoration are rapidly expanding, raising theoretical questions and practical concerns. For instance, the primary goal of the Bonn Challenge, issued jointly in 2011 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the Government of Germany, is to restore 350 million ha of degraded land by 2030, while the UN General Assembly recently proclaimed 2021-2030 to be the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Such coordinated restoration across large spatial and temporal scales is a response to widespread environmental degradation, human welfare needs, and increased understanding of how species are sustained by distributed habitats and ecosystems (Lotze et al. 2006; Hall et al. 2018). In view of these trends, the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) recently formed a Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration section (Daoust et al. 2014). What does ecological restoration science offer to those working toward such ambitious goals? Restoration ecology provides information about the study of individual sites, ecosystems, and vulnerable species developed over the past half century (Roman and Burdick 2012; Clewell and Aronson 2013), yet for the most part it has not addressed large-scale restoration that includes multiple ecosystems and restoration projects across landscapes. Large-scale restoration is usually more cost-effective than local site-specific planning (Neeson et al. 2015); however, little formal research on achieving successful program-level outcomes has been reported. Useful principles to support the enormous projected expansion of restoration and ensure that large investments produce planned ecosystem functions are urgently needed. In practice, large-scale restoration is typically overseen by multidisciplinary teams and based on an ecosystem approach developed at the site scale, as can be seen in the programs we reviewed (Figure 1). Geomorphic conditions and hydrological

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Section: Systemic Cumulative Effectsmentioning

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Applying cumulative effects to strategically advance large‐scale ecosystem restoration

Diefenderfer

Steyer

Harwell

et al. 2020

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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“…Seagrass extent has increased by more than 65% since the 1980s, and in 2014 exceeded the recovery goal adopted in 1996 (. Figure 4.13) (Greening et al 2018).…”

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“…Continuing nutrient management actions from public and private sectors were associated with a steadily declining total nitrogen load rate, despite an increase of more than 1 million people living within the Tampa Bay metropolitan area. Following recovery from an extreme weather event in 1997-1998, water clarity has increased significantly, and seagrass is expanding at a rate significantly different than before the event (Boesch 2019;Greening et al 2018). Seagrass extent has increased by more than 65% since the 1980s, and in 2014 exceeded the recovery goal adopted in 1996 (.…”

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Nutrients and Eutrophication

Brodie

2023

Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment

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Excess nutrientsfrom fertiliser application, pollution discharge and water regulations outflow through rivers from lands to oceans, seriously impact coastal ecosystems. Terrestrial runoff of waters polluted with nutrients (primarily nitrogen [N] and phosphorus [P] compounds) from point source/s, such as sewage treatment plant (STP) discharges, and diffuse sourcesvia river discharges, such as fertiliser losses, are having devastating adverse effects in coastal and marine ecosystems globally (Carpenter et al., Ecol Appl 8:559–568, 1998; Halpern et al., Science 319:948–952, 2008; Crain et al., Ecol Lett 11:1304–1315, 2008; Smith and Schindler, Trends Ecol Evol 24:201–207, 2009). The nutrients can be dissolved such as dissolved nitrate and Phosphate typically discharged from STPs or agricultural runoff or in a particulate form, often associated with soil erosion.

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“…Such interactions also highlight the importance of connecting monitoring to ecological theory, experiments, and modeling to evaluate mechanisms and the generality of system dynamics (Duffy et al, 2013b). For example, both shallow rooted macrophytes (Short and Burdick, 1996;Greening et al, 2018) and macroalgal forests (Benedetti-Cecchi et al, 2015;Filbee-Dexter and Wernberg, 2018) can shift rapidly to unvegetated or alternate vegetation states, with important management implications. Experiments and theory help predict the warning signs and mechanisms of such transitions.…”

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confidence: 99%