Guidance for monitoring realigned or new habitat coastal sites
This project created guidance for monitoring sites in the intertidal regions of estuaries and coastal zones, saltmarsh and mudflat habitats.
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Creating a new habitat or restoring a habitat can be used to reduce the impact of:
- claiming land from water
- reinforcing the shoreline
- dredging or rises in sea levels
- squeezing the amount of land available
This project provided guidance on monitoring sites where habitat has been created or the shoreline has been changed through managed realignment. These include the intertidal regions of estuaries and coastal zones, as well as saltmarsh and mudflat habitats.
The project produced guidance on:
- collecting more relevant, consistent, and statistically valid data
- assessing the success of habit creation schemes
- consistent monitoring of sites to improve understanding of site development and how this might contribute to the wider functioning of an estuary or coastal system
The outputs from this project will be useful for all organisations and individuals involved in enhancing, managing and conserving estuary and coastal zones.
This project ran from 2002 to 2005.