Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) populations have declined perhaps 95% in the recent past, creating legitimate concern that the species may become endangered. During the nonbreeding period the species occurs predominantly in southern U.S. forested wetland habitats, with concentrations in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley and in the southeastern Coastal Plain of the Carolinas and Georgia. Both...

We developed a series of tools to address three integrated tasks needed to effectively manage wetlands on a watershed basis: inventory, assessment, and restoration. Depending on the objectives of an assessment, availability of resources, and degree of confidence required in the results, there are three levels of effort available to address these three tasks. This paper describes the development...

Abstract Shorelines and their ecosystems are endangered by sea-level rise. Nature-based coastal protection is becoming a global strategy to enhance resilience through the cost-effective creation, restoration sustainable use of wetlands. However, rise wetlands created under Solution has been assessed largely on regional scale. Here we assess, using meta-analysis, difference in accretion, elevati...

Landscape context is an important factor in restoration ecology, but the use of landscape context for site prioritization has not been as fully developed. We used morphological image processing to identify candidate ecological restoration areas based on their proximity to existing natural vegetation. We identified 1,102,720 candidate ecological restoration areas across the continental United St...

Restoration has been elevated as an important strategy to reverse the decline of coastal wetlands worldwide. Current practice in restoration science emphasizes minimizing competition between out-planted propagules to maximize planting success. This paradigm persists despite the fact that foundational theory in ecology demonstrates that positive species interactions are key to organism success u...

This paper summarizes the findings of a pre-design feasibility analysis assessing the restoration of significant portions of wetlands in southeast Louisiana by providing nutrients through the introduction of treated municipal wastewater effluent. Wetlands assimilation is a process whereby properly treated and disinfected municipal wastewater treatment plant effluent is used to provide a source ...

BACKGROUND: In the early 1990s, some U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Districts began using and evaluating custom-made geotextile tubes with fabric tensile strengths ranging between 400 and 1,000 lb/in. (70,000-175,000 N/m). The tubes have been used as containment dikes for dredged material placed in shallow water to intertidal elevations. Wetlands have been restored on the dredged material with th...

/ Investigation of a delta marsh restoration project proposed forthe Don River in Toronto, Ontario, underlines several concerns aboutconstructed wetland projects designed for water quality improvement andaquatic habitat enhancement. The Don is a highly urbanized river that hasundergone significant physiographic modifications and continually receives acomplex mixture of conventional, metallic, a...