Investigating the potential for green-gray mangrove protection systems to establish, restore, and protect mangrove-associated biodiversity.....

调查绿色-灰色保护系统在建立、恢复和保护南佛罗里达州海岸线海底生态系统和红树林相关生物多样性方面的潜力。城市化和气候变化正在用人工保护结构取代生态系统。世界各地的沿海地区容易受到海平面上升和风暴事件加剧的影响，因此传统上依赖于工程设计的人为解决方案来保护。然而，随着人们越来越多地认识到这些结构的耐久性差及其对沿海生态系统的负面影响，人们对研究可持续的和从生态角度了解的防御方法的兴趣也在增加。在过去的40年里，红树林已经被公认为具有成本效益的、基于自然的解决方案，可以在提供生态系统服务的同时保护海岸线。该项目将首先评估SEAHIVE结构--一种新型的工程海洋和红树林生态系统保护系统--如何支持佛罗里达州东南部城市的红树林生态系统。方法包括：树木特征测量、水下摄像测量和用于标准化生物多样性监测和比较的自主珊瑚礁监测系统单元。其目的是随后将关键发现和监测方法交叉比较/翻译到菲律宾，在由绿色-灰色基础设施修复的地点。该项目将与动物研究所、伦敦国王学院和迈阿密大学的研究人员合作，填补海岸线保护和红树林恢复系统方面的知识空白，目标是在红树林生物多样性、社会政治和经济背景不同但面临相似生态挑战的地区分享管理技术。

Investigating the potential for green-gray protection systems to establish, restore, and protect shoreline benthic ecosystems and mangrove-associated biodiversity in South Florida.Urbanization and climate change are replacing ecosystems with artificial protection structures. Coastal regions worldwide are vulnerable to sea level rise and intensifying storm events and thus have traditionally relied on engineered, human-made solutions for protection. Yet, as recognition of the poor durability of these structures and their negative impacts on coastal ecosystems increases, so does interest in investigating sustainable and ecologically informed defense methods. Over the past forty years, mangrove forests have become recognized as cost-effective, nature-based solutions that protect shorelines whilst delivering ecosystem services. This project will first evaluate how SEAHIVE structures-a novel engineered marine and mangrove ecosystem protection system-support mangrove ecosystems in urban Southeast Florida. Methods include: tree characteristics measurements, underwater camera surveys, and Autonomous Reef Monitoring System units for standardized biodiversity monitoring and comparison. The aim is to then cross-compare/translate key findings and monitoring methods to the Philippines, in sites being restored by green-gray infrastructure. With researchers at the Institute of Zoology, King's College London, and University of Miami, this project will fill knowledge gaps about shoreline protection and mangrove restoration systems, with the goal of sharing management techniques across regions that differ in mangrove-biodiversity, socio-political, and economic backgrounds, but that face similar ecological challenges.