Leveraging a Landscape-Level Monitoring and Assessment Program for Developing Resilient Shorelines throughout the Laurentian Great Lakes
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Author
Wilcox, Douglas A.Uzarski, Donald G.
Brady, Valerie J.
Cooper, Matthew J.
Albert, Dennis A.
et. al., see listing below
Journal title
Wetlands v. 39Date Published
2019
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Traditionally, ecosystem monitoring, conservation, and restoration have been conducted in a piecemeal manner at the local scale without regional landscape context. However, scientifically driven conservation and restoration decisions benefit greatly when they are based on regionally determined benchmarks and goals. Unfortunately, required data sets rarely exist for regionally important ecosystems. Because of early recognition of the extreme ecological importance of Laurentian Great Lakes coastal wetlands, and the extensive degradation that had already occurred, significant investments in coastal wetland research, protection, and restoration have been made in recent decades and continue today. Continued and refined assessment of wetland condition and trends, and the evaluation of restoration practices are all essential to ensuring the success of these investments. To provide wetland managers and decision makers throughout the Laurentian Great Lakes basin with the optimal tools and data needed to make scientifically-based decisions, our regional team of Great Lakes wetland scientists developed standardized methods and indicators used for assessing wetland condition. Froma landscape perspective, at the LaurentianGreat Lakes ecosystemscale, we established a stratified random-site-selection process to monitor birds, anurans, fish, macroinvertebrates, vegetation, and physicochemical conditions of coastal wetlands in the US and Canada. Monitoring of approximately 200 wetlands per year began in 2011 as the Great Lakes CoastalWetlandMonitoring Program. In this paper, we describe the development, delivery, and expected results of this ongoing international, multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder, landscape-scale monitoring programas a case example of successful application of landscape conservation design.DOI
10.1007/s13157-019-01139-wDescription
Full list of authors: Donald G. Uzarski1 & Douglas A. Wilcox2 & Valerie J. Brady3 & Matthew J. Cooper1,4 & Dennis A. Albert5 & Jan J. H. Ciborowski6 & Nicholas P. Danz7 & Anne Garwood8 & Joseph P. Gathman9 & Thomas M. Gehring1 & Greg P. Grabas10 & Robert W. Howe11 & Lucinda B. Johnson3 & Gary A. Lamberti12 & Ashley H. Moerke13 & Gerald J. Niemi3 & Todd Redder14 & Carl R. Ruetz III15 & Alan D. Steinman15 & Douglas C. Tozer16 & T. Kevin O’Donnell17ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s13157-019-01139-w
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