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Restoration of Several Native Species of Bivalve Molluscs for Water Quality Improvement in Mid-Atlantic Watersheds.

Bivalve molluscs provide water quality benefits throughout mid-Atlantic watersheds, such as Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware River basins. Whereas most of the attention has focused […]

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Restoration of Several Native Species of Bivalve Molluscs for Water Quality Improvement in Mid-Atlantic Watersheds.
Bivalve molluscs provide water quality benefits throughout mid-Atlantic watersheds, such as Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware River basins. Whereas most of the attention has focused […]
Enhancement of Ribbed Mussel Populations document image
Enhancement of Ribbed Mussel Populations in Mid-Atlantic Salt Marshes and Living Shorelines for Water Quality Ecosystem Services
Historically, eroding shorelines have been managed through the implementation of hardened infrastructure such as seawalls, bulkheads, and revetments. As these structure are spatially static, they […]
Effects of Coastal Flooding on the Growth of Trees in Low-Lying Forests along the St. Jones River, Delaware document
Effects of Coastal Flooding on the Growth of Trees in Low-Lying Forests along the St. Jones River, Delaware
Accelerating sea level rise, and the increase of associated environmental stressors such as increasing flood intensity, is a major concern along the Mid Atlantic coast. […]
Juvenile Freshwater Mussel Rearing for Water Quality Improvement in Delaware study
Juvenile Freshwater Mussel Rearing for Water Quality Improvement in Delaware
More than 80,000 juvenile freshwater mussels were produced in a hatchery and reared in a variety of aquatic habitats and aquaculture gear within Kent and […]
Enhancing the Water Quality Benefits of Shellfish-Based Living Shorelines in Delaware report
Enhancing the Water Quality Benefits of Shellfish-Based Living Shorelines in Delaware
This is a report on the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary’s installation of Delaware’s first “hybrid” living shoreline along 300’ of eroding salt marsh adjacent […]
Enhancing Water Quality by Restoring Freshwater Mussels in an Urban River study
Enhancing Water Quality by Restoring Freshwater Mussels in an Urban River: Assessing and Testing Prospects in Relation to Salinity
Native species of freshwater mussels were found to tolerate and grow in size at all tidal study sites on the lower Christina River in New […]
Environmental Amenities as a Source of Market Power
Environmental Amenities as a Source of Market Power
Site-specific environmental amenities can provide a source of product-differentiating market power. Using estimates from hedonic-price equations and residual-demand models, our analysis recovers firm-specific estimates of […]
Ecoshorelines on Developed Coasts Guidance and Best Practices report
Ecoshorelines on Developed Coasts Guidance and Best Practices
Specific guidance is needed for ecoshorelines due to these and other unique requirements for working on developed coasts. The objective of this document is to, […]
Living Shorelines Engineering Guidelines report
Living Shorelines Engineering Guidelines
Many documents have been developed with the objective of educating policymakers, regulators, and property owners on the engineering and ecological aspects of living shorelines. The […]
coastal margins study document
Chapter 11: Coastal Margins
The six Coastal Margin habitats (Sand Dunes, Machair, Saltmarsh, Shingle, Sea Cliffs and Coastal Lagoons) make up only 0.6% of the UK’s land area, but […]