Advancing Coastal Habitat Resiliency Through Landscape-Scale Assessment

References

• Adamowicz, S. C., and C. T. Roman. 2005. New England salt marsh pools: A quantitative analysis of geomorphic and geographic features. Wetlands 25 (2):279–88. doi:10.1672/4.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Arnold, C. L. Jr., and C. J. Gibbons. 1996. Impervious surface coverage the emergence of a key environmental indicator. Journal of the American Planning Association 62 (2):243–58. doi:10.1080/01944369608975688.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Askins, R. A. 2014. Personal communication. New London, CT: Connecticut College.
   Google Scholar
• Askins, R. A., M. J. Philbrick, and D. S. Sugeno. 1987. Relationship between the regional abundance of forest and the composition of forest bird communities. Biological Conservation 39 (2):129–52. doi:10.1016/0006-3207(87)90030-9.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barbier, E. B., S. D. Hacker, C. Kennedy, E. W. Koch, A. C. Stier, and B. R. Silliman. 2010. The value of estuarine and coastal ecosystem services. Ecological Monographs 81 (2):169–93. doi:10.1890/10-1510.1.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Basso, G., K. O'Brien, M. Albino, and V. O'Neill. 2015. Status and trends of wetlands in the Long Island Sound Area: 130 year assessment. U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. 37 pp. Accessed January 28, 2015. http://www.fws.gov/northeast/science/sciencenews/wetlandslongislandsound.html.
   Google Scholar
• Bednarek, A. 2001. Undamming rivers: A review of the ecological impacts of dam removal. Environmental Management 27 (6):803–14. doi:10.1007/s002670010189.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bellucci, C. J., M. Becker, and M. Beauchene. 2011. Characteristics of macroinvertebrate and fish communities from 30 least disturbed small streams in Connecticut. Northeastern Naturalist 18 (4):411–44. doi:10.1656/045.018.0402.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Benetech. 2008. Miradi – adaptive management software for conservation projects. Foundations of Success. Accessed January 28, 2015. https://miradi.org/.
   Google Scholar
• Boulton, A. J. 1999. An overview of river health assessment: Philosophies, practice, problems and prognosis. Freshwater Biology 41 (2):469–79. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2427.1999.00443.x.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bricker, S., B. J. Longstaff, W. Dennison, A. Jones, K. Boicourt, C. Wicks, and J. Woerner. 2007. Effects of nutrient enrichment in the nation's estuaries: A decade of change. NOAA Coastal Ocean Program Decision Analysis Series No. 26. National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, MD. 328 pp. Accessed January 28, 2015. http://eutro.org.
   Google Scholar
• Bricker, S. B., J. G. Ferreira, and T. Simas. 2003. An integrated methodology for assessment of estuarine trophic status. Ecological Modelling 169 (2003):39–60. doi:10.1016/S0304-3800(03)00199-6.
   Google Scholar
• Brush, M. J., and S. W. Nixon. 2002. Direct measurements of light attenuation by epiphytes on eelgrass Zostera marina. Marine Ecology Progress Series 238:73–9. doi:10.3354/meps238073.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chesapeake Bay Foundation. 2016. State of the Bay. 20 pp. Accessed March 2, 2017. http://www.cbf.org/about-the-bay/state-of-the-bay-report-2016.
   Google Scholar
• Cicchetti, G., and H. Greening. 2011. Estuarine biotope mosaics and habitat management goals: An application in Tampa Bay, FL, USA. Estuaries and Coasts 34 (6):1278–92. doi:10.1007/s12237-011-9408-4.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• CLEAR. 2007. Landscape Fragmentation Tool, LFT v2.0. Storrs, CT: Center for Land Use Education And Research (CLEAR) The University of Connecticut Department of Agriculture. version 2.0. Accessed August 5, 2015. http://clear.uconn.edu/tools/lft/lft2/index.htm.
   Google Scholar
• CLEAR. 2012. 2010 Land Cover, area_2010_v2-03.img. Storrs, CT: Center for Land Use Education And Research (CLEAR) The University of Connecticut Department of Agriculture. Series: Long Island Sound Watershed's Changing Landscape, version 2.03. Accessed August 5, 2015. http://clear.uconn.edu/projects/landscapelis/downloadLIS.asp.
   Google Scholar
• Correll, M. D., W. A Wiest, T. P. Hodgman, W. G. Shriver, C. S. Elphick, B. J. McGill, K. M. O'Brien, and B. J. Olsen. 2016. Predictors of specialist avifaunal decline in coastal marshes. Conservation Biology 00(0):1–11.
   Google Scholar
• Dahl, T.E., and S.M. Stedman. 2013. Status and trends of wetlands in the coastal watersheds of the conterminous United States 2004 to 2009. U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. 46 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Duarte C., D. J. Conley, J., Carstensen, and M. Sánchez-Camacho. 2009. Return to Neverland: Shifting baselines affect eutrophication restoration targets. Estuaries and Coasts 32 (1):29–36. doi:10.1007/s12237-008-9111-2.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Folke, C., S. Carpenter, B. Walker, M. Scheffer, T. Elmqvist, L. Gunderson, and C. S. Holling. 2004. Regime shifts, resilience, and biodiversity in ecosystem management. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 35:557–81.
   Google Scholar
• Gedan, K.B., B.R. Silliman, and M.D. Bertness. 2009. Centuries of human-driven change in salt marsh ecosystems. Annual Review of Marine Science 1 (1):117–41. doi:10.1146/annurev.marine.010908.163930.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Goals Project. 1999. Baylands ecosystem habitat goals. A report of habitat recommendations prepared by the San Francisco Bay Area Wetlands Ecosystem Goals Project: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco, CA/S.F. Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, Oakland, CA. 328 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Goals Project. 2015. The Baylands and climate change: What we can do. Baylands ecosystem habitat goals science update 2015. Prepared by the San Francisco Bay Area Wetlands Ecosystem Goals Project. California State Coastal Conservancy, Oakland, CA. 237 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Greening, H., A. Janicki, E. T. Sherwood, R. Pribble, and J. O. R. Johansson. 2014. Ecosystem responses to long-term nutrient management in an urban estuary: Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 151:A1–A16. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2014.10.003.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hemminga, M. A., and C. M. Duarte. 2000. Seagrass ecology. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press, pp. 312.
   Google Scholar
• Hauxwell, J., J. Cebrián, and I. Valiela. 2003. Eelgrass Zostera marina loss in temperate estuaries: relationship to land-derived nitrogen loads and effect of light limitation imposed by algae. Marine Ecology Progress Series 247:59–73. doi:10.3354/meps247059.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Karr, J. R., K. D. Fausch, P. L. Angermeier, P. R. Yant, and I. J. Schlosser. 1986. Assessing biological integrity in running waters: A method and its rationale. Special Publication 5. Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaigne, Illinois. 31 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Karr, J. R. 1991. Biological integrity: A long-neglected aspect of water resource management. Ecological Applications, Ecological Society of America 1 (1):66–84. doi:10.2307/1941848.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Karr, J. R. 1996. Ecological integrity and ecological health are not the same. In Engineering within ecological constraints, ed. P. C. Schulze, 97–109. Washington DC: National Academy Press.
   Google Scholar
• Kirwan, M. L., G. R. Guntenspergen, A. D'Alpaos, J. T. Morris, S. M. Mudd, and S. Temmerman. 2010. Limits on the adaptability of coastal marshes to rising sea level. Geophysical Research Letters 37 (23):1–5. doi:10.1029/2010GL045489.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kocian, M., A. Fletcher, G. Schundler, D. Batker, A. Schwartz, and T. Briceno. 2015. The trillion dollar asset: The economic value of the Long Island Sound basin. Earth Economics, Tacoma, WA. 84 pp. Accessed May 14, 2015. http://www.eartheconomics.org/FileLibrary/file/Reports/Earth%20Economics%20Long%20Island%20Sound%20Basin%202015%20Final%20Report.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Krause-Jensen, D., A. L. Middelboe, K. Sand-Jensen, and P. B. Christensen. 2000. Eelgrass, Zostera marina, growth along depth gradients: Upper boundaries of the variation as a powerful predictive tool. Oikos 91 (2):233–44. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.910204.x.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Latimer, J. S., M. A. Tedesco, R. L. Swanson, C. Yarish, P. E. Stacey, and C. Garza eds. 2014. Long Island Sound: Prospects for the Urban Sea. NY: Springer Publishers.
   Google Scholar
• Long Island Sound Study. 2014. 12 Priority Habitat Types. Long Island Sound Study. Accessed May 21, 2015. http://longislandsoundstudy.net/issues-actions/habitat-quality/important-coastal-habitat-types/.
   Google Scholar
• Long Island Sound Study. 2015. Long Island Sound Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan 2015: Returning the urban sea to abundance. 76 pp. Accessed June 1, 2016. http://longislandsoundstudy.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/CCMP_LowRes_Hyperlink_singles.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Long Island Sound Study. 2016. Futures Fund Request for Proposals. Long Island Sound Study. Accessed June 1, 2016. http://www.nfwf.org/lisff/Pages/2016lisffrfp.aspx.
   Google Scholar
• Long Island Sound Study. 2017. Status & Trends: Long Island Sound Study Environmental Indicators. Accessed March 2, 2017. http://longislandsoundstudy.net/research-monitoring/long-island-sound-environmental-indicators/.
   Google Scholar
• Lotze, H. K., H. S. Lenihan, B. J. Bourque, R. H. Bradbury, R. G. Cooke, M. C. Kay, S. M. Kidwell, M. X. Kirby, C. H. Peterson, and J. B. C. Jackson. 2006. Depletion degradation, and recovery potential of estuaries and coastal seas. Science 312 (5781):1806–9. doi:10.1126/science.1128035.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• MacLachlan, A. 2014. Personal communication. Southern New England – New York Bight Coastal Program, Charlestown, RI. [email protected].
   Google Scholar
• Mann, K. H. 1982. Ecology of coastal waters: A systems approach. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, pp. 332.
   Google Scholar
• May, C. W., R. R. Horner, J. R. Karr, B. W. Mar, and E. B. Welch. 1997. Effects of urbanization on small streams in the Puget Sound Lowland Ecoregion. Watershed Protection Techniques 2 (4):483–94.
   Google Scholar
• Meiman, S., D. Civco, K. Holsinger, and C. S. Elphick. 2012. Comparing habitat models using ground-based and remote sensing data: Saltmarsh sparrow presence versus nesting. Wetlands 32 (4):725–36. doi:10.1007/s13157-012-0306-8.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McGuire, J. L., J. J. Lawler, B. H. McRae, T. A. Nuñez, and D. M. Theobald. 2016. Achieving climate connectivity in a fragmented landscape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (26):7195–200. doi:10.1073/pnas.1602817113.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Narragansett Bay Estuary Program. 2017. State of the Bay and Its Watershed 500 pp. Accessed July 27, 2017. http://nbep.org/the-state-of-our-watershed/technicalreport/.
   Google Scholar
• Neeson, T. M., M. C. Ferris, M. W. Diebel, P. J. Doran, J. R. O'Hanley, and P. B. McIntyre. 2015. Enhancing ecosystem restoration efficiency through spatial and temporal coordination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112 (19):6236–41. doi:10.1073/pnas.1423812112.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nellemann, C., E. Corcoran, C. M. Duarte, L. Valdés, C. D. Young, L. Fonseca, and G. Grimsditch eds. 2009. Blue Carbon: A rapid response assessment. United Nations Environment Programme, GRID-Arendal. 80 pp. Accessed January 28, 2015. http://www.grida.no/publications/rr/blue-carbon/.
   Google Scholar
• Neraas, L. P. and P. Spruell. 2001. Fragmentation of riverine systems: The genetic effects of dams on bull trout (Salvelinus confulentus) in the Clark Fork River system. Molecular Ecology 10:1153–64. doi:10.1046/j.1365-294X.2001.01269.x.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Niemeijer, D., and R. S. Groot. 2008. A conceptual framework for selecting environmental indicator sets. Ecological Indicators 8:14–25. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2006.11.012.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Palmer, M. A. 2008. Reforming watershed restoration: Science in need of application and applications in need of science. Estuaries and Coasts 32 (1):1559–2723.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pringle, C. 2003. What is hydrologic connectivity and why is it ecologically important? Hydrological Processes 17 (13):2685–9. doi:10.1002/hyp.5145.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Reed, B. J., and K. A. Hovel. 2006. Seagrass habitat disturbance: How loss and fragmentation of eelgrass Zostera marina influences epifaunal abundance and diversity. Marine Ecology Progress Series 326:133–43. doi:10.3354/meps326133.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Roman, C. 2017. Salt marsh sustainability: Challenges during an uncertain future. Estuaries and Coasts, 40 (3):711–16.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• San Francisco Estuary Partnership. 2015. State of the Estuary Report. 96 pp. Accessed March 2, 2017. http://www.sfestuary.org/about-the-estuary/soter/.
   Google Scholar
• Save the Sound. 2016. Long Island Sound Report Card 2016. Accessed August 21, 2017. http://ian.umces.edu/pdfs/ian_newsletter_541.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Schueler, T. R. 2003. Impacts of impervious cover on aquatic systems. Watershed protection research monograph 1:1–158.
   Google Scholar
• Schueler, T., L. Fraley-McNeal, and K. Cappiella. 2009. Is impervious cover still important? Review of recent research. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 14 (4):309–15. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2009)14:4(309).
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sherwood, E. T., H. S. Greening, A. J. Janicki, and D. J. Karlen. 2016. Tampa Bay Estuary: Monitoring long-term recovery through regional partnerships. Regional Studies in Marine Science 4:1–11. doi:10.1016/j.rsma.2015.05.005.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sherwood, E. T., H. S. Greening, J. O. R. Johansson, K. Kaufman, and G. E. Raulerson. 2017. Tampa Bay (Florida, USA): Documenting seagrass recovery since the 1980's and reviewing the benefits. Southern Geographer. 57 (3):294–319. doi:10.1353/sgo.2017.0026.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Silliman, B. R., E. D. Grosholz, and M. D. Bertness, eds. 2009. Human impacts on salt marshes: A global perspective. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
   Google Scholar
• Tampa Bay Estuary Program. 2015. Progress Report. 20 pp. Accessed March 2, 2017. http://www.tbep.org/pdfs/tbep_progress_rpt_2015_webx.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Thompson, I., B. Mackey, S. McNulty, and A. F. R. Mosseler. 2009. Forest Resilience, Biodiversity, and Climate Change. Technical Series no. 43. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Canada. 67 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Thrush, S., J. Halliday, J. Hewitt, and A. Lohrer. 2008. The effects of habitat loss, fragmentation, and community homogenization on resilence in estuaries. Ecological Applications 18 (1):12–21. doi:10.1890/07-0436.1.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tiner, R., K. McGuckin, and J. Herman. 2013. Changes in Connecticut wetlands: 1990 to 2010. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Northeast Region, Hadley, MA. 36 pp. Accessed January 28, 2015. http://www.ct.gov/deep/lib/deep/water_inland/wetlands/connecticut_wetld_trends_1990-2010_final_report_2013.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Tiner, R., K. McGuckin, and A. MacLachlan. 2013. 2012 Eelgrass survey for Eastern Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Inventory Program, Northeast Region, Hadley MA. 26 pp. Accessed January 28, 2015. http://longislandsoundstudy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2012-LIS-Eelgrass-Final.Report_11-26-2013.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Tischendorf, L., and L. Fahrig. 2000. On the usage and measurement of landscape connectivity. Oikos 90 (1):7–19. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.900102.x.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• USEPA. 2012. National Coastal Condition Report IV, Report: EPA-842-R-10-003. Office of Research and Development/Office of Water, Washington, DC. 298 pp. Accessed August 21, 2017. http://water.epa.gov/type/oceb/assessmonitor/nccr/upload/0_NCCR_4_Report_508_bookmarks.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• USEPA. 2017. Coastal Wetland Loss Analysis: Summary of findings of pilot studies conducted by the interagency coastal wetlands workgroup. 6 pp. Accessed August 23, 2017. https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2017-07/documents/wetlands_loss_analysis_july_2017.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Valiela, I. 2006. Global coastal change. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 376.
   Google Scholar
• Vaudrey, J. M. P. 2015. Unpublished data. Groton, CT: University of Connecticut, Department of Marine Sciences.
   Google Scholar
• Vaudrey, J. M. P., J. Eddings, C. Pickerell, L. Brousseau, and C. Yarish. 2013a. Development and application of a GIS-based Long Island Sound Eelgrass Habitat Suitability Index Model: Final report for the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission and the Long Island Sound Study. 171 pp. Accessed January 27, 2015. http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/marine_sci/3/.
   Google Scholar
• Vaudrey, J. M. P., J. K. Kim, C. Yarish, L. Brousseau, C. Pickerell, and J. Eddings. 2013b. Comparative analysis and model development for determining the susceptibility to eutrophication of Long Island Sound embayments; QAPP Version 2 – September 9, 2013. University of Connecticut and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County.
   Google Scholar