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Lower American River restoration snorkel surveys at the project and control reaches
Sacramento Water Forum will implement spawning and rearing habitat enhancement projects on the Lower American River at the Lower Sailor Bar, Nimbus Basin, and Upper River Bend reaches. Enhancements include installation of gravel to restore over 18 acres of spawning habitat and in-channel/floodplain grading to create over 14 acres of rearing habitat. Construction of Lower Sailor Bar and Nimbus Basin were completed in summer 2022 and Upper River Bend was completed in summer 2023.The goal of the projects is to increase existing spawning and rearing habitat for salmonids under typical flows. This work supports effectiveness monitoring for this project, including spawning and rearing (snorkel) surveys before and after restoration. This work also informs performance metrics and adaptive management strategies.
Comparing vertical accretion, organic carbon (C) sequestration, and nitrogen burial between a natural, never diked tidal salt marsh and a hydrologically restored tidal salt marsh on Sapelo Island, Georgia.
Restoration of tidal marshes throughout the 20th century have attempted to bring back important functions of natural tidal systems. In this study, vertical accretion, organic carbon (C) sequestration, and nitrogen burial were compared between a natural, never diked tidal salt marsh and a hydrologically restored tidal salt marsh on Sapelo Island, Georgia to examine the impacts of restoration years later. On Sapelo Island there are two marshes near the University of Georgia Marine Institute, one of which is a natural marsh, and one of which is a restored marsh. The restored marsh had been diked in 1948, and the dike was breached, allowing for the marsh to be restored, in 1956. Soil cores were collected from both marshes, and the sediments were analysed for Nitrogen and Carbon concentrations and bulk density. This analysis was used to determine accretion rates for the two marshes as well as changes in the restored marsh since the dike was breached. Nitrogen burial, carbon sequestration, and soil accretion in the restored marsh as compared to the natural marsh were the focus of this study.
Lower American River restoration spawning surveys at project and control reaches (2022 - 2024)
Sacramento Water Forum has implemented spawning and rearing habitat enhancement projects on the Lower American River at the Lower Sailor Bar, Nimbus Basin, Upper River Bend and Lower River Bend reaches. Enhancements include installation of gravel to restore over 28 acres of spawning habitat and in-channel/floodplain grading to create over 44 acres of rearing habitat. Construction of Lower Sailor Bar and Nimbus Basin were completed in summer 2022, Upper River Bend was completed in summer 2023, and Lower River Bend was completed in summer 2024. The goal of the projects is to increase existing spawning and rearing habitat for salmonids under typical flows. This work supports effectiveness monitoring for this project, including spawning and rearing (snorkel) surveys before and after restoration. This work also informs performance metrics and adaptive management strategies.
Hallwood Floodplain and Side Channel Restoration Project - Salmonid Redd Surveys on the Yuba River 2014-2023
Cramer Fish Sciences (CFS), cbec, inc. ecoengineering, and South Yuba River Citizen’s League, funded and directed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s Anadromous Fish Restoration Program (USFWS AFRP) and Yuba Water Agency, teamed to plan, design, monitor, perform regulatory compliance for the Hallwood Side Channel and Floodplain Restoration Project (Project) on the Yuba River, California. The Project is designed to restore and enhance ecosystem processes, with a primary focus on improving productive juvenile salmonid rearing habitat to increase natural production of fall and spring-run Chinook Salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) and steelhead ( O. mykiss ) in the Yuba River. The Project would enhance and/or create up to 157 acres of seasonally inundated riparian floodplain habitats, 1.7 miles of perennial side and alcove channels, and more than 6.1 miles of seasonal side channels. The design approach focuses on removing unnatural constraints (such as a mid-river training wall and very coarse surface materials left from mining activities) in order to allow natural river and floodplain processes to function. Construction planning efforts include multi-year phasing to remove about 3.2 million cubic yards of material from the site while optimizing habitat establishment in early years and minimizing disturbance to existing high quality riparian and aquatic habitat. The Project included a robust monitoring program that measured the effect of restoration on a range of ecological parameters thought to influence salmonid habitat use and productivity and riparian ecosystem function using a Before-After-Control-Impact study framework. Specifically, we monitored salmonid and non-native predator density, juvenile salmonid growth and residence time, predation, invertebrate prey (drift) density and biomass, and changes in acreage of a range of habitat types, including terrestrial and aquatic vegetation. We also examined factors influencing natural riparian tree recruit
Mohler Restoration Snorkel Surveys on the Stanislaus River, San Joaquin County, CA, 2024-2025
The East Stanislaus Conservation District, Cramer Fish Sciences, and cbec, inc. ecoengineering, funded by a Bureau of Reclamation Central Valley Project Improvement Act program grant, are designing, constructing, and monitoring the Mohler Salmonid Habitat Restoration project, aimed at improving juvenile rearing and outmigration habitat on the lower Stanislaus River. The project is located approximately 20 km upstream from the confluence with the San Joaquin River, an area where little habitat restoration has been done. The project has the potential to create approximately 5.8 acres of seasonally inundated rearing and outmigration habitat for Central Valley fall-run Chinook Salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) and steelhead ( O. mykiss ) . The project is anticipated to be constructed in 2025 or 2026 with two year of post-project monitoring following. This work supports effectiveness monitoring of the project via rearing (snorkel) surveys and is ongoing.
Effects of inoculation of restored and remnant prairie soils on growth, nodulation, and root colonization of three prairie legumes
In this dataset, we present legume biomass, nodule number, and % root colonization of three species of prairie legumes (Amorpha canescens, Lespedeza capitata, and Dalea purpurea) when inoculated with soil from one of 6 remnant or 10 restored prairies in southwest Michigan, USA. Plants were grown for 10 weeks in a growth chamber.
Data from: Invasion timing affects multiple scales, metrics and facets of biodiversity outcomes in ecological restoration experiments (Missouri, 2009-2016)
Vegetation responses to experimental ecological restoration treatments at Tyson Research Centre of Washington University in Missouri, USA. These data include species-level cover responses to various factorial restoration treatments. Treatments were applied starting in 2009 and were measured in 2016. Treatment responses reflect these long term responses, but the dataset is comprised to one time point.
Tortuga Restoration Snorkel Surveys on the Stanislaus River, Stanislaus County, CA, 2024-2025
The East Stanislaus Conservation District and Cramer Fish Sciences, funded by a Bureau of Reclamation Central Valley Project Improvement Act program grant, are designing, constructing, and monitoring the Tortuga Salmonid Habitat Restoration project, aimed at improving juvenile rearing and adult spawning habitat on the lower Stanislaus River for Central Valley fall-run Chinook Salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) and steelhead ( O. mykiss ). The project is located approximately 67 km upstream from the confluence with the San Joaquin River. The project has the potential to create approximately 3.18 acres of seasonally inundated rearing habitat, 0.44 acres of perennial in-channel rearing habitat, and 0.44 acres of spawning habitat. The project is expected to be constructed in 2025 or 2026, with two years of post-project monitoring following construction. This work supports effectiveness monitoring of the project including spawning and rearing (snorkel) surveys and is ongoing.
Tortuga Restoration Spawning Surveys on the Stanislaus River, Stanislaus County, CA, 2023-2024
The East Stanislaus Conservation District and Cramer Fish Sciences, funded by a Bureau of Reclamation Central Valley Project Improvement Act program grant, are designing, constructing, and monitoring the Tortuga Salmonid Habitat Restoration project, aimed at improving juvenile rearing and adult spawning habitat on the lower Stanislaus River for Central Valley fall-run Chinook Salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) and steelhead ( O. mykiss ). The project is located approximately 68 km upstream from the confluence with the San Joaquin River. The project has the potential to create approximately 3.18 acres of seasonally inundated rearing habitat, 0.44 acres of perennial in-channel rearing habitat, and 0.44 acres of spawning habitat. The project is expected to be constructed in 2025 or 2026, with two years of post-project monitoring following construction. This work supports effectiveness monitoring of the project including spawning and rearing (snorkel) surveys and is ongoing.
PRP01 Konza prairie long term restoration study of aboveground annual net primary productivity (ANPP)
The experiment is a randomized complete block design with four whole plot hetereogeneity treatments replicated within each of four blocks (n=16 whole plots). The whole plot treatments were created using different combinations of soil depth and nutrient manipulations. The control plots contained no depth or nutrient manipulations. The 'maximum hetereogeneity' plots contained three 2 m x 8 m vertical strips assigned to ambient, enriched and reduced N treatments and four 2 m x 6 m horizontal strips assigned to deep and shallow soil to result in six treatment combinations. The maximum heterogeneity plots are a split-block design. Each plot contained 12 subplots (2 m x 2 m) for sampling. All of the plots had surface soil temporarily removed to a depth of approximately 25 cm and natural limestone slabs were laid in strips assigned to the shallow soil treatment. The soil from all plots was then replaced, leveled, and disked (2-3 cm deep). In February 1998, we incorporated sawdust (49% C; C:N ratio=122) into the strips assigned to the reduced-N treatment. The average C concentration and bulk density in the surface 15 cm following long-term cultivation was 1.5% and 1.2 g cm-3, respectively. Sawdust was tilled into the soil at a rate of 5.5 kg dry wt./m2 to achieve a C concentration representative of native prairie soil (approx.3% C). Surface applications of granular sugar were initiated in 2004 at a rate of 200 g sucrose m-2 (84.22 g C/m2) 3-4 times each growing season. Strips assigned to the enriched-N treatment were fertilized with 5 g N m2/y (applied as ammonium-nitrate) in July of the first growing season and early June of each subsequent year.
Zooplankton Communities of Restored Depressional Wetlands in Wisconsin - North Temperate Lakes LTER 1998
Wisconsin has lost approximately 2 million hectares of wetland since statehood (1848). Through the combined efforts of state and federal agencies and private groups focused primarily on wetland restoration for waterfowl habitat management or compensatory mitigation, a fairly substantial gain in wetland area has been achieved. Much of the wetland restoration effort in Wisconsin has occurred on formerly agricultural lands. However, due to the nature of the past disturbance and possible residual effects not corrected by simply returning surface waters to these lands, there is some question regarding the resultant wetland quality or biological integrity. In an effort aimed at developing tools to measure wetland gains in terms of quality or ecological integrity, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) initiated a study of biological communities on restored wetlands in Wisconsin. We report on the community of microcrustaceans and arthropods that can be collected with a plankton net in open water in wetlands. We examined zooplankton community structure in restored wetlands in terms of richness, taxonomic representation, and Daphnia sexual reproduction and related these metrics to attributes on wetlands representing least-disturbed conditions and agriculturally impacted wetlands. We sampled 56 palustrine wetlands distributed across Wisconsin. These wetland sites were categorized as agricultural, least-impacted, and restored (recently withdrawn from agricultural usage). The wetlands were reasonably homogeneous in many ways, so that taxon richness was not correlated with basin origin, presence of adjacent roads, presence or absence of fish, water chemistry, or the size of the open water. We identified a total of 40 taxa.. We conclude that restoration of wetland watersheds works. Withdrawal of the watershed from agricultural usage is followed by an increase in taxon richness, and the sites resembled least-impacted sites in about 6-7 years. Dodson, S. I. and R. A.
Sediment Carbon and Nitrogen of Seagrass Restoration in Virginia Coastal Bays 2007-2021
This data set contains measurements of sediment carbon and nitrogen content in restored Z. marina meadows in Hog Island Bay and South Bay, VA. Sediments were sampled annually in June-July. GPS locations of sampling plots are available in the companion data set VCR11180.
Incentive mechanisms and the provision of public goods: Field experiment data for testing alternative economic frameworks to supply ecosystem restoration on Virginia's Eastern Shore: 2008 data.
This dataset consists of participant responses in one of two economic experiments conducted on Virginia's Eastern Shore during 2008 and 2009 by Elizabeth C. Smith used to gauge resident preferences and willingness-to-pay for ecosystem restoration activities. This dataset was designed to be used to examine a practical method to implement an individualized pricing approach to public good provision, grounded in Lindahl's marginal benefit theory. The study's focus was on ecosystem valuation and market approaches that have potential to provide public goods, examining the potential to generate revenues for public goods from consumers. While willingness-to-pay measurement techniques have been used to assess preferences for many environmental goods, this research goes a step further to explore real money auctions that generate revenues sufficient to pay for restoration activities. The data from the field experiments conducted in coastal Virginia were used, along with laboratory experiment data, to evaluate the performance of auction mechanisms in generating revenues relative to potential (Hicksian) willingness to pay for marginal increments in public goods. The field execution of this experiment involved residents of Virginia's Eastern Shore and local public goods. This application involved half-acre increments of ecosystem restoration for sea grass habitat in coastal lagoons, plantings for migratory bird habitat, and, in some auctions, clam-based increments of water quality services, defined as delaying the harvest of clams for six months beyond normal harvest by an existing aquaculture firm. To perform these tasks, participants were provided a budget, between $90 and $150. The auctioneer described for participants the ecosystem services that may result from additional ecosystem restoration associated with each activity. The actual levels of ecosystem restoration provided were based on aggregate offers reaching a pre-determined (but unknown to the participants) provision p
Incentive mechanisms and the provision of public goods: Field experiment data for testing alternative economic frameworks to supply ecosystem restoration on Virginia's Eastern Shore: 2009 data.
This dataset consists of participant responses in one of two economic experiments conducted on Virginia's Eastern Shore during 2008 and 2009 by Elizabeth C. Smith used to gauge resident preferences and willingness-to-pay for ecosystem restoration activities. This dataset was designed to be used to examine a practical method to implement an individualized pricing approach to public good provision, grounded in Lindahl's marginal benefit theory. The study's focus was on ecosystem valuation and market approaches that have potential to provide public goods, examining the potential to generate revenues for public goods from consumers. While willingness-to-pay measurement techniques have been used to assess preferences for many environmental goods, this research goes a step further to explore real money auctions that generate revenues sufficient to pay for restoration activities. The data from the field experiments conducted in coastal Virginia were used, along with laboratory experiment data, to evaluate the performance of auction mechanisms in generating revenues relative to potential (Hicksian) willingness to pay for marginal increments in public goods. The field execution of this experiment involved residents of Virginia's Eastern Shore and local public goods. This application involved half-acre increments of ecosystem restoration for sea grass habitat in coastal lagoons, plantings for migratory bird habitat, and, in some auctions, clam-based increments of water quality services, defined as delaying the harvest of clams for six months beyond normal harvest by an existing aquaculture firm. To perform these tasks, participants were provided a budget, between $90 and $150. The auctioneer described for participants the ecosystem services that may result from additional ecosystem restoration associated with each activity. The actual levels of ecosystem restoration provided were based on aggregate offers reaching a pre-determined (but unknown to the participants) provision p
Oyster and associated fauna counts and lengths from restored and reference reefs in the coastal bays of Virginia, 2005-2019
This dataset has been superceded by Lusk, B., R. Smith, and M.C.N. Castorani. 2024. Oyster fauna lengths, counts, and biomass from restored and reference reefs in Virginia coastal bays, 2005-2023 ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/d68de69f29cee5f737313a07f813f245 (Accessed 2024-02-22). which includes additional years and parameters. Oyster and associated reef fauna counts and lengths were sampled at 16 natural reference reefs and 61 restored shell plant reefs located at 18 sites in the Virginia Coast Reserve. Overfishing and disease decimated oyster reefs in the Virginia Coast Reserve in the 1900s. Reference reefs were defined as remnant reefs that naturally recovered in the early 2000s to develop the pronounced vertical structure and multiple oyster size classes that represent the desired endpoint of restoration efforts. Nearly every year since 2003, The Nature Conservancy and Virginia Marine Resource Commission have constructed oyster reefs in intertidal areas in the VCR. To construct the restored reefs, practitioners applied dredged, fossilized oyster shell to intertidal locations chosen for their bottom stability and accessibility (locations lacked oysters prior to construction). Whelk shell supplemented the oyster shell at 9 of the restored reefs.
Presence observations for six tree species prioritized for forest landscape restoration in Ethiopia
<p><strong>Description:</strong></p><p>Geolocations of presence occurrences for a selection of six species (<i>Cordia africana</i>, <i>Croton macrostachyus</i>, <i>Eucalyptus globulus</i>, <i>Faidherbia albida</i>, <i>Grevillea robusta</i>, <i>Juniperus procera</i>) sourced from databases (GBIF, RAINBIO) and from the scientific literature.</p><p>Each record is associated with a DOI, link, or citation to the original source of the data. Observations were filtered using the R package <i>CoordinatesCleaner</i> (Zizka <i>et al</i>. 2019) with the <i>clean_coordinates </i>function to filter for errors that are common to biological collections.</p><p>The breakdown of the number of observations by species is: <i>Cordia africana</i> (84); <i>Croton macrostachyus</i> (129); <i>Eucalyptus globulus (</i>20); <i>Faidherbia albida </i>(31); <i>Grevillea robusta </i>(350); <i>Juniperus procera </i>(115).</p>
COgnitive intervention to Restore attention using nature Environment (CORE) study data
<p>The COgnitive intervention to Restore attention using nature Environment (CORE) study is single-blinded, two-group randomized-controlled pilot trial among patients with heart failure. The aims to test the preliminary efficacy of the newly developed Nature-VR, a virtual reality-based cognitive intervention that is based on the restorative effects of nature. The Nature-VR intervention group viewed 3-dimensional nature pictures using a virtual reality headset for 10 minutes per day, 5 days per week for 4 weeks (a total of 200 minutes). The active comparison group, Urban-VR, viewed 3-dimensional urban pictures using a virtual reality headset to match the Nature-VR intervention in intervention dose and delivery mode, but not in content. In this study, 73 participants with heart failure completed the baseline and randomized to either Nature-VR or Urban-VR. The target outcomes were attention, self-care of heart failure, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). After baseline data collection, 4 follow-up data were collected at 4, 8, 26, and 52 weeks.</p>
City of Seattle, Seattle Public Utilities, Restoration Thinning Trial, 2005 - 2017, Cedar River Municipal Watershed, King County, WA
The Restoration Thinning (RT) Program in the Cedar River Municipal Watershed (CRMW) was one of three forest restoration programs (the others being Ecological Thinning and Planting) defined and funded through the Cedar River Watershed Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) that was signed and initiated in April of 2000. Restoration thinning and ecological thinning projects were combined into the 'Upland Forest Thinning' project and are ongoing today to meet objectives outlined in the Habitat Conservation Plan and Forest Managment Plan. The primary goal of the RT program, which is analogous to pre-commercial thinning, was to actively thin dense young second-growth forest stands (generally less than 30 years old) to facilitate ecological development towards old-growth forest habitat conditions. Objectives of RT include: Reduce competition among trees. Stimulate tree growth. Increase light penetration under the top tree canopy. Increase tree and understory plant species diversity. Accelerate forest development beyond the competitive exclusion stage towards a more biologically diverse stage. Extend the forest development stand initiation stage such that diverse species become established and diverse stand structures develop. Provide multiple development pathways for variable forest stand structures. Reduce long-term fire hazard. Increase resilience to catastrophic windthrow, insect, or disease outbreak. Increase habitat connectivity and structural variability of riparian areas. This data package describes a forest restoration trial in young conifer forests of the western central Cascade Range in Washington State, USA. Young second-growth forests often regenerate as very dense, homogeneous stands following harvesting. These forests have low species diversity and trees often experience strong competition for resources. To increase tree vigor and growth and stimulate development of diverse understory, shrub species stands are thinned with the long-term goal to restore diverse func
City of Seattle, Seattle Public Utilities, Riparian Restoration 2001-current, Cedar River Municipal Watershed, King County, WA
The City of Seattle’s Cedar River Municipal Watershed is managed to support and supply clean drinking water to the greater Seattle area. The watershed covers 91,000 acres, hosts a rich diversity of plants, animals, and habitats, and is owned by the City of Seattle. In 2001 the City of Seattle prepared a multi-species Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) to comply with the federal Endangered Species Act and to address a variety of related natural resource issues in the Cedar River Watershed. As defined in the HCP, the riparian zone is the area adjacent to surface waters and areas of high groundwater levels where the terrestrial system both influences, and is influenced by, the aquatic system. The City’s strategies for the riparian ecosystem are designed to protect the region’s supply of high-quality drinking water, to preserve and enhance stream and riparian ecosystems within the municipal watershed, and to restore and rehabilitate stream and riparian functions. This package includes as-builts from riparian restoration projects, shapefiles of planting locations, and their associated monitoring data. The data is a result of monitoring that occurred after installation of riparian restoration projects in the Cedar River Municipal Watershed. The monitoring data includes plant survivorship but varies by project in what information was collected. The monitoring data was collected by multiple people over many years. Some projects were monitored for several years after project installation and some projects were monitored only once. Some projects included experimental plantings that were assigned a variety of treatments to test the efficacy of different planting strategies. In this instance, the monitoring data can be used to identify the success of the various strategies. Monitoring tabular data will be updated as more restoration projects are installed, and as previously installed projects receive continued monitoring.
Stream Restoration and Flood Impacts in the Kickapoo River Watershed, Wisconsin, 2019
Data were collected from May to November 2019 at five sites on two stream reaches in the Kickapoo River Watershed. Sites include Billings Creek restoration site (BRES), Billings Creek reference site (BREF), Warner Creek upstream site (WUP), Warner Creek middle site (WMD), and Warner Creek downstream (WDN) site. Data were collected by Dr. Caroline Gottschalk Druschke as part of research into the impacts of stream restoration and flooding on Kickapoo River Watershed (WI, USA) streams. Data were collected on methane and carbon dioxide fluxes on all reaches, as well as cross sectional area and soft sediment depth on the restored reach on Billings Creek before and after restoration in July 2019.
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