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Resilience of coastal upland vegetation post-Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy hit the coastal urbanized matrix of Jamaica Bay, New York in October 2012 resulting in damage to its fringing coastal upland vegetation. Sand deposition and residual standing water from flooding tested the resilience of these habitats. Three years post-Sandy, we conducted detailed vegetative surveys in 24 sites around the bay where sand deposition and flooding occurred. We compared the damaged locations with paired adjacent undisturbed areas to evaluate the differences in vegetative resilience. Our surveys in the coastal upland sites disturbed by sand deposition and flooding showed no differences in non-native plant species richness, percent cover, or composition compared with their undamaged counterparts. Further, there was no evidence that the hurricane facilitated further invasion of non-native plant species, either as an increase in abundance of existing non-native species or invasion of new non-native plant species. We found trends in a few specific survey areas, where site conditions allowed for a higher degree of damage as measured by a decrease in vegetative percent cover. We conclude that even hurricane level disturbances did not change the vegetative character of our study area’s shore and that the upland vegetation in this area demonstrated resilience despite substantial storm damage.
Resilience of coastal upland vegetation post-Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy hit the coastal urbanized matrix of Jamaica Bay, New York in October 2012 resulting in damage to its fringing coastal upland vegetation. Sand deposition and residual standing water from flooding tested the resilience of these habitats. Three years post-Sandy, we conducted detailed vegetative surveys in 24 sites around the bay where sand deposition and flooding occurred. We compared the damaged locations with paired adjacent undisturbed areas to evaluate the differences in vegetative resilience. Our surveys in the coastal upland sites disturbed by sand deposition and flooding showed no differences in non-native plant species richness, percent cover, or composition compared with their undamaged counterparts. Further, there was no evidence that the hurricane facilitated further invasion of non-native plant species, either as an increase in abundance of existing non-native species or invasion of new non-native plant species. We found trends in a few specific survey areas, where site conditions allowed for a higher degree of damage as measured by a decrease in vegetative percent cover. We conclude that even hurricane level disturbances did not change the vegetative character of our study area’s shore and that the upland vegetation in this area demonstrated resilience despite substantial storm damage.
Resilience of coastal upland vegetation post-Hurricane Sandy
Epiphan, Jean N. (Autor:in) / Meixler, Marcia S. (Autor:in) / Aronson, Myla F. J. (Autor:in) / Kaunzinger, Christina M. K. (Autor:in) / Handel, Steven N. (Autor:in)
Coastal Management ; 53 ; 110-140
04.03.2025
31 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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