A natural laboratory for small estuary studies: the reincarnation of Town Pond

Autor:	R. G. LaMontagne, M. Oumano, Stephen J. Mecca, D. Johnson
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	geography geography.geographical_feature_category Marsh business.industry Environmental resource management Estuary Wetland Natural (archaeology) Oceanography Salt marsh Ecosystem management Environmental science Baseline (configuration management) business Bay
Zdroj:	WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment.
ISSN:	1743-3541 1746-448X
DOI:	10.2495/rm090161
Popis:	Early maps document a 70 acre salt marsh encased estuary that during the 1950s was filled with dredge spoils by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A number of stakeholders including Save the Bay, a non-profit advocacy group supported a restoration of this ecosystem and in 2006, the Corps of Engineers completed the restoration project. The resulting system offers a unique opportunity to observe the early evolution of a new estuarian ecosystem and provides a natural laboratory for short and long-term studies of the dynamics of small estuaries. This paper briefly overviews the stages leading to the present system, offers a set of experiments that will aid in creating a baseline for future studies and describes progress on a sediment survey currently underway.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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