Understanding the conditionality of ecosystem services: The effect of tidal flat morphology and oyster reef characteristics on sediment stabilization by oyster reefs

Paiva, João N. Salvador de; Walles, Brenda; Ysebaert, Tom; Bouma, Tjeerd J.

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.12.020

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“…(Sandford, 2008;Orvain, et al, 2012;Nasermoaddeli, et al, 2018;Angeletti, et al, 2019)] agree that the presence of bioturbators generally enhance sediment resuspension. However, bio-mediated sediment dynamics often have complex non-linear behaviour (Balke, et al, 2012;Salvador de Paiva, et al, 2018;Fang, et al, 2019;Xie, et al, 2019). For instance, some field transplantation studies report tidal flat accretion in presence of high densities of the bioturbator Cerastoderma edule (Andersen, et al, 2010;Donadi, et al, 2013), whereas flume studies often show an increase in sediment resuspension.…”

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Biological and physical drivers of bio-mediated sediment resuspension: A flume study on Cerastoderma edule

Cozzoli

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Dalen

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Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

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Biological and physical drivers of bio-mediated sediment resuspension: A flume study on Cerastoderma edule

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“…The restoration of coastal ecosystems is increasingly advocated as an important strategy to halt and counteract the increasing erosion along coastlines world‐wide (Gedan, Kirwan, Wolanski, Barbier, & Silliman, 2011; Lai, Loke, Hilton, Bouma, & Todd, 2015). This means that the restoration of ecosystem engineers that trap sediment and attenuate wave energy, such as wetland vegetation and reef‐building organisms, is most important on highly dynamic wave‐exposed and eroding foreshores (Möller et al., 2014; Salvador de Paiva et al., 2018). Coastal wetland restoration generally focusses on reducing physical stressors such as wave energy, and avoiding competition between organisms, while the importance of self‐facilitating interactions is often overlooked (Renzi et al., 2019).…”

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“…In terms of using ecosystems for coastal protection, restoration can be particularly challenging as these foreshores are often subjected to high hydrodynamic stress and erosion, resulting in higher establishment thresholds (Bouma et al., 2014; Temmerman et al., 2013). In temperate areas, biogenic reefs, as formed by mussels and oysters, stabilize sediment, attenuate wave energy (Donker, van der Vegt, & Hoekstra, 2013; Salvador de Paiva et al., 2018; Walles et al., 2015), and can grow at the pace of sea level rise (van Leeuwen et al., 2010; Walles et al., 2015). This may make them a sustainable and cost‐effective addition in coastal defense schemes (Borsje et al., 2011; Bouma et al., 2014; Temmerman et al., 2013).…”

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“…As a result, tidal flats are slowly eroding with an average net erosion rate of 10 mm/year (Santinelli & Ronde de, 2012). The mudflat at the study site experiences high hydrodynamic forces and is eroding with an average net erosion rate of 15 mm/year (Salvador de Paiva, Walles, Ysebaert, & Bouma, 2018). In the past, natural intertidal mussel beds were present throughout the estuary, including on the Viane mudflat (Fokker, 1905).…”

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Promoting self‐facilitating feedback processes in coastal ecosystem engineers to increase restoration success: Testing engineering measures

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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1. Coastal ecosystem engineers often depend on self-facilitating feedbacks to ameliorate environmental stress. This makes the restoration of such coastal ecosystem engineers difficult. We question if we can increase transplantation success in highly dynamic coastal areas by engineering measures that promote the development of self-facilitating feedback processes. 2. Intertidal blue mussels Mytilus edulis are a typical example of ecosystem engineers that are difficult to restore. A lack of self-facilitating feedbacks at low densities limits establishment success when young mussels are transplanted on dynamic mudflats. 3. In a large field experiment, we investigated the possibility of increasing transplantation success by stimulating the formation of an aggregated spatial configuration in mussels, thereby reducing hydrologically induced dislodgment and the risks of predation. For this, we applied engineering measures in the form of fences that trapped wave dislodged mussels. 4. Mussel loss rates were significantly lower when mussels were placed between both artificial fences, and in high densities (4.2 kg/m 2) compared with mussels placed in areas without fences and in low densities (2.1 kg/m 2). The fences induced the formation of a banded pattern with high local mussel densities, which locally reduced predation. 5. Synthesis and applications. Our results underline the importance of actively promoting the development of self-facilitating processes, such as aggregation into patterns, in restoration projects of ecosystem engineers. In particular, the current study shows that engineering measures can help to initiate these kinds of selffacilitating interactions, especially in highly dynamic areas.

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“…At the small scale, many contributions have focused on the contributions of individual or small groups of plants or animals on geomorphological processes within reefs (e.g. Salvador de Paiva et al ., 2018; Schotanus et al ., 2020), mudflats and marshes (e.g. Temmerman et al ., 2003; Townend et al ., 2011; Nolte et al ., 2013; Schwarz et al ., 2015; Coleman and Kirwan, 2019; Schepers et al ., 2020) and coastal dunes (e.g.…”

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Biogeomorphology, quo vadis? On processes, time, and space in biogeomorphology

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Nardin

Lageweg

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Biogeomorphology has been expanding as a discipline, due to increased recognition of the role that biology can play in geomorphic processes, as well as due to our increasing capacity to measure and quantify feedback between biological and geomorphological systems. Here, we provide an overview of the growth and status of biogeomorphology. This overview also provides the context for introducing this special issue on biogeomorphology, and specifically examines the thematic domains of biogeomorphological research, methods used, open questions and conundrums, problems encountered, future research directions, and practical applications in management and policy (e.g. nature‐based solutions). We find that whilst biogeomorphological studies have a long history, there remain many new and surprising biogeomorphic processes and feedbacks that are only now being identified and quantified. Based on the current state of knowledge, we suggest that linking ecological and geomorphic processes across different spatio‐temporal scales emerges as the main research challenge in biogeomorphology, as well as the translation of biogeomorphic knowledge into management approaches to environmental systems. We recommend that future biogeomorphic studies should help to contextualize environmental feedbacks by including the spatio‐temporal scales relevant to the organism(s) under investigation, using knowledge of their ecology and size (or metabolic rate). Furthermore, in order to sufficiently understand the ‘engineering’ capacity of organisms, we recommend studying at least the time period bounded by two disturbance events, and recommend to also investigate the geomorphic work done during disturbance events, in order to put estimates of engineering capacity of biota into a wider perspective. Finally, the future seems bright, as increasingly inter‐disciplinary and longer‐term monitoring are coming to fruition, and we can expect important advances in process understanding across scales and better‐informed modelling efforts. © 2020 The Authors. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd

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Understanding the conditionality of ecosystem services: The effect of tidal flat morphology and oyster reef characteristics on sediment stabilization by oyster reefs

Cited by 36 publications

References 30 publications

Biological and physical drivers of bio-mediated sediment resuspension: A flume study on Cerastoderma edule

Biological and physical drivers of bio-mediated sediment resuspension: A flume study on Cerastoderma edule

Promoting self‐facilitating feedback processes in coastal ecosystem engineers to increase restoration success: Testing engineering measures

Biogeomorphology, quo vadis? On processes, time, and space in biogeomorphology

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