{"title":"Grassland Redux: Restoration at a Former Landfill on the Hudson River","authors":"Jenna Webster","doi":"10.3368/er.39.4.274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/er.39.4.274","url":null,"abstract":"Within environmental fields and the broader public, there is increasing recognition that former industrial lands and other anthropogenic landscapes can provide wildlife habitat, particularly for highly mobile wildlife such as birds and insects. Enhancing the habitat quality of such variable environments can be complex when balancing restoration needs with the needs of wildlife already using these settings. This case study presents the restoration of a high-profile 34 ha (85 acre) grassland along the Hudson River in New York State, seeded in the 1990s atop a former landfill. The project’s central challenge entailed addressing widespread invasive exotic vegetation that had colonized the grassland, without impacting grassland nesting birds of conservation concern actively using the site. This article describes the design approach used and key aspects of installation and management. Incorporation of crowdsourced data, stakeholder involvement, specification preparation, weed control strategies, and vegetation establishment are discussed along with the site’s unique history and its potential to inform future public engagement.","PeriodicalId":11492,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Restoration","volume":"39 1","pages":"274 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46187289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wetland Restoration in Typha-Dominated Braddock Bay of Lake Ontario","authors":"Alexander O. Silva, D. Wilcox, Eli L. Polzer","doi":"10.3368/er.39.4.247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/er.39.4.247","url":null,"abstract":"The barrier beach at the Braddock Bay wetland on Lake Ontario was lost to erosion. Without the protective barrier, the area of vegetated wetland was reduced by wave attack. Lake-level regulation implemented in 1960 resulted in cattail (primarily hybrid Typha × glauca), invasion and loss of sedge-grass meadow habitat. As part of the Rochester Embayment Great Lakes Area of Concern, Braddock Bay was targeted for restoration by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The plan included reducing coverage by cattails, construction of channels and potholes to improve wildlife access to the wetland, creation of spoil mounds along the channels to discourage growth of cattail while supporting the growth of sedge-grass meadow species, re-creation of the barrier beach, and construction of new emergent marsh. We collected vegetation data for three years following the 2016 construction activities. Post-restoration results showed that cattail cover decreased greatly across years in the cattail treatment areas, decreased in lower elevation constructed habitats, and gradually increased in higher elevation habitats. Opening of the canopy resulted in increased floating and submersed species, and constructed mounds hosted wet meadow species. Site-level weighted mean C is recommended for future data analyses, rather than FQAI or mean C, because it has no observed influence from species richness. Restoration results were affected by high lake levels in 2017, identified problems in seeding and planting, and meeting construction plans for some channel and pothole depths and mound elevations. Pre-restoration soil surveys are recommended to reduce construction problems, and adaptive management should include invasive species control.","PeriodicalId":11492,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Restoration","volume":"39 1","pages":"247 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45740699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Starr, Kristen Reardon, Phil Rabovsky, E. Peterson
{"title":"Redefining the Urban Preserve: Community Concerns Reframe the Ecological Imperative in a New Coastal Park","authors":"L. Starr, Kristen Reardon, Phil Rabovsky, E. Peterson","doi":"10.3368/er.39.4.288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/er.39.4.288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11492,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Restoration","volume":"39 1","pages":"288 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41794125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating Social Science in Puget Sound Restoration","authors":"Kelly Biedenweg, David J. Trimbach, W. Fleming","doi":"10.3368/er.39.4.226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/er.39.4.226","url":null,"abstract":"Social science is central to effective ecosystem restoration. It can enhance stakeholder-driven management practices; excavate assumptions about management strategies; and improve understanding of failures and successes from restoration efforts. In the Puget Sound of Washington State, social science is beginning to play a larger role in ecosystem recovery. In this paper, we use a governance-oriented science-policy framework to assess the ways in which social science has gained structural support in the Puget Sound. We then compare this analysis to responses from client users of Puget Sound restoration science to identify the extent to which they perceive governance support for social science integration. We found that the Puget Sound region has substantively enhanced the governance structure for integrating social science in restoration and partner agencies have improved their ability to engage in meaningful dialogue around social science needs. Nevertheless, existing top-down planning processes dominated by natural science perspectives often hinder its application.","PeriodicalId":11492,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Restoration","volume":"39 1","pages":"226 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46178375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary—Landfills as Islands of Grassland Biodiversity: Placing a Next-Generation Habitat Restoration Plan in Context","authors":"M. C. Allen","doi":"10.3368/er.39.4.284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/er.39.4.284","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11492,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Restoration","volume":"39 1","pages":"284 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47018056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hanna M. Thomson, Morgan M. Davies, P. Lawn, Katrina Kushneryk, Eleanor K. Brouard-John, Kyle R. Nelson, T. Gerwing
{"title":"Spread of an Aquatic Invasive Plant, Iris pseudacorus, Following Replacement of a Hydraulic Structure","authors":"Hanna M. Thomson, Morgan M. Davies, P. Lawn, Katrina Kushneryk, Eleanor K. Brouard-John, Kyle R. Nelson, T. Gerwing","doi":"10.3368/er.39.4.238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/er.39.4.238","url":null,"abstract":"Freshwater ecosystems are heavily modified by hydraulic structures (embankments, dams, dikes, causeways, etc.). International efforts to restore freshwater ecosystems, along with increased stress on hydraulic structures due to climate change-induced flooding, extreme rain events, and sea-level rise, have resulted in increased incidences of breaching and removal of these structures. However, modification of hydraulic structures can facilitate the dispersal of aquatic invasive species. Such an unintended outcome became apparent following the replacement of an ageing earthen dam at Greenburn Lake (South Pender Island, British Columbia) that appears to have facilitated the spread of Iris pseudacorus (Yellow flag iris) into previously uninvaded wetland habitat. While best practices to prevent this plant’s downstream dispersal were implemented, the observed spread offers several practical recommendations to mitigate this risk in similar projects. We recommend that aquatic invasive species be explicitly considered prior to construction as part of an environmental impact assessment. Specifically, the spread of I. pseudacorus could have been mitigated through 1) enhanced efforts to clean machinery and equipment, 2) timely off-site disposal of organic material and sediment containing reproductive propagules, 3) cutting and smothering of I. pseudacorus within the work area at minimum three months before construction, 4) shifting timing of construction to fit within ecologically defined work windows that minimize the spread of I. pseudacorus seeds, and 5) use of physical barriers to capture suspended and buoyant propagules. The utilization of similar methods may reduce the spread of aquatic invasive plants during the maintenance or removal of other hydraulic structures.","PeriodicalId":11492,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Restoration","volume":"39 1","pages":"238 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44515304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Grizzle, K. Ward, Raymond A. Konisky, J. Greene, H. Abeels, R. Atwood
{"title":"Oyster Reef Restoration in New Hampshire, USA: Lessons Learned During Two Decades of Practice","authors":"R. Grizzle, K. Ward, Raymond A. Konisky, J. Greene, H. Abeels, R. Atwood","doi":"10.3368/er.39.4.260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/er.39.4.260","url":null,"abstract":"Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) populations in New Hampshire were approaching historical low levels in the late 1990s when broadly supported oyster restoration projects were initiated. Since then, the state’s collaborative program has conducted approximately 20 projects. Most consisted of constructing a hard substrate (usually mollusc shells) reef base then adding live juvenile oysters (“spat-on-shell”) produced in remote setting tanks. Assessments conducted in 2013, 2015, and 2019 provided long-term (up to 13 years post-construction) data on success and identified potential improvements to the restoration protocol involving two design criteria: reef base and site location. All three long-term assessments found excessive base burial (sedimentation) at many sites, leading to attempts to balance base height, bottom area coverage, and available funds. The result for most projects was multiple, haphazardly positioned shell mounds extending < 0.5 m above the bottom. The site location process initially focused on areas where oyster reefs occurred historically, but after the 2013 assessment and subsequent field experiments, the focus changed to identifying areas with the highest potential for recruitment from wild oysters. This research, which involved three natural reefs over two years, found > 75% of total recruitment occurred < 400 m from the natural reefs. Most current restoration projects center around these two design criteria: multiple shell mound structure and proximity to a healthy natural reef. The New Hampshire experience thus far confirms the emphasis by others on the value of long-term assessments, but as is the case in most areas, much remains to be learned and accomplished.","PeriodicalId":11492,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Restoration","volume":"39 1","pages":"260 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48976219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unintended Entrainment of Western Pond Turtle (Actinemys marmorata) during Algae Control on a Newly Restored Wetland","authors":"J. Alvarez, R. Gaitan, Mary Shea, Sarah M. Foster","doi":"10.3368/er.39.4.223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/er.39.4.223","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11492,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Restoration","volume":"39 1","pages":"223 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43852294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}