Sedges and grasses have a competitive advantage over cattails at higher elevations in Great Lakes wetlands where periodic low lake levels result soils too dry to support cattails. Regulation of Lake Ontario water eliminated lake-level years, resulting cattail invasion. At wetland scale two sites, we tested restoration methods by dredging channels through cattails, using spoil materials create m...

For more than two decades, wetland restoration has been successfully applied in Denmark as a tool to protect watercourses from elevated nutrient inputs agriculture, but little is known about how the flora and fauna respond restoration. The main objective of this study was therefore to: (1) examine plant community characteristics 10 sites River Odense Kratholm catchment, restored between 2001 20...

We look to a particular social-ecological system, the restoration community in Rhode Island, USA and the rivers, wetlands, marshes, and estuaries they work to protect, to draw connections between communication, community involvement, and ecological restoration project success. Offering real-world examples drawn from interviews with 27 local, state, federal, and nonprofit restoration managers, w...

The construction of an ecological security pattern can effectively overcome the contradiction between regional human exploitation and protection in coastal zone. Taking Xiangshan Bay (XSB) basin as example, this study identified source areas from three aspects, namely ecosystem services’ importance, sensitivity, landscape connectivity, then constructed resistance surfaces, corridors, pattern. r...

Here we review an extensive series of studies Barataria Basin, economically and ecologically important coastal basin the Mississippi Delta. Human activity has greatly altered hydrology by decreasing riverine inflows from leveeing river its distributaries, increasing runoff with high nutrient concentrations agricultural fields, channelization wetlands interior that flow paths to often bypass wet...

Restoration of coastal plain depressions, a biologically significant and threatened wetland type of the southeastern United States, has received little systematic research. Within the context of an experimental project designed to evaluate several restoration approaches, we tested whether successful revegetation can be achieved by passive methods (recruitment from seed banks or seed dispersal) ...

—Densities of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) represented by total coliforms, E. coli and enterococci were measured within tidal channels of the Ballona Wetlands (Los Angeles County) to see if the wetlands act as a sink or source for these bacteria and to measure increases in FIB densities during wet weather. Samples were collected on 10 days over a 1-yr period beginning February 2003 at four si...

Wetlands form a crucial component of ecosystems, and wetland restoration serves as an effective strategy for promoting sustainable urban development. Spatial support is essential restoration, meaning that research on spatial planning considerable importance. Existing studies primarily focus the analysis distribution characteristics, with limited exploration relationships. This paper aims to exp...