Science-based restoration monitoring of coastal habitats, Volume Two: Tools for monitoring coastal habitats

Thayer, Gordon W. and McTigue, Teresa A. and Salz, Ronald J. and Merkey, David H. and Burrows, Felicity M. and Gayaldo, Perry F. (2005) Science-based restoration monitoring of coastal habitats, Volume Two: Tools for monitoring coastal habitats. Silver Spring, MD, NOAA/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science/Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research, (National Coastal Ocean Program Decision Analysis Series, 23 (Vo)

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Abstract

Healthy coastal habitats are not only important ecologically; they also support healthy coastal communities and improve the quality of people’s lives. Despite their many benefits and values, coastal habitats have been systematically modified, degraded, and destroyed throughout the United States and its protectorates beginning with European colonization in the 1600’s (Dahl 1990). As a result, many coastal habitats around the United States are in desperate need of restoration. The monitoring of restoration projects, the focus of this document, is necessary to ensure that restoration efforts are successful, to further the science, and to increase the efficiency of future restoration efforts.

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