Ecological data as a resource for invasive species management in U.S. Great Lakes coastal wetlands

Kneisel, A N; Cooper, Matthew; Monfils, Anna; Haidar, Salma; Uzarski, Donald G

doi:10.1016/j.jglr.2020.01.006

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“…gigas , increased substantially (up to 33 times) at a vast majority of sites across multiple habitat types within two major southern California estuaries during a decade where median SST increased approximately 2–4°C during summer months. The impact of this NIS on southern California estuarine communities is so far unknown, but given its potential for significant impacts elsewhere [e.g., 30], including on native oyster species [ 31 ], and its ability to substantially alter the habitat [ 20 ], these documented density increases should elevate the species’ profile among resource managers enabling decision-making about whether management actions should be implemented [ 49 , 50 ].…”

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Intra-decadal increase in globally-spread Magallana gigas in southern California estuaries

Wolfe,

Bowers-Doerning,

Espinosa

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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Introduction and establishment of non-indigenous species (NIS) has been accelerated on a global scale by climate change. NIS Magallana gigas’ (formerly Crassostrea gigas’) global spread over the past several decades has been linked to warming waters, specifically during summer months, raising the specter of more spread due to predicted warming. We tracked changes in density and size distribution of M. gigas in two southern California, USA bays over the decade spanning 2010–2020 using randomly placed quadrats across multiple intertidal habitats (e.g., cobble, seawalls, riprap) and documented density increases by 2.2 to 32.8 times at 7 of the 8 sites surveyed across the two bays. These increases in density were coincident with 2–4° C increases in median monthly seawater temperature during summer months, consistent with global spread of M. gigas elsewhere. Size frequency distribution data, with all size classes represented across sites, suggest now-regular recruitment of M. gigas. Our data provide a baseline against which to compare future changes in density and abundance of a globally-spread NIS of significant concern.

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Intra-decadal increase in globally-spread Magallana gigas in southern California estuaries

Wolfe,

Bowers-Doerning,

Espinosa

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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“…Many natural resource agencies recognize the importance of-and commit resources to-long term monitoring that can yield valuable management insights (Lindenmayer et al, 2012). Yet, much of these data remain untapped for management decision-making (Kneisel et al, 2020). Researchers and managers alike would benefit from researchers using existing data sets to evaluate invader control outcomes, rather than only collecting data from their own experiments.…”

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We Can Better Manage Ecosystems by Connecting Solutions to Constraints: Learning from Wetland Plant Invasions

Adams

Hovick

Anderson

et al. 2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Wetlands provide critical wildlife habitat, improve water quality, and mitigate the impacts of floods, droughts, and climate change. Yet, they are drained, filled, dredged, and otherwise altered by humans, all of which contribute to their high susceptibility to plant invasions. Given the societal significance of wetlands and the disproportionately large amount of time and money spent controlling invaders in remaining wetlands, a fundamental shift must occur in how we approach restoration of plant-invaded wetlands. The need for more research is often used as an excuse for a lack of progress in invader management but, in fact, constraints to invader management are spread across the science, management, and stakeholder engagement domains. At their intersection are “implementation gap” constraints where the monumental efforts required to bridge the gap among scientists, managers, and community stakeholders are often unassigned, unrewarded, and underestimated. Here we synthesize and present a portfolio of broad structured approaches and specific actions that can be used to advance restoration of plant-invaded wetlands in a diversity of contexts immediately and over the long-term, linking these solutions to the constraints they best address. These solutions can be used by individual managers to chart a path forward when they are daunted by potentially needing to pivot from more familiar management actions to increase efficiency and efficacy in attaining restoration goals. In more complex collaborations with multiple actors, the shared vocabulary presented here for considering and selecting the most appropriate solution will be essential. Of course, every management context is unique (i.e., different constraints are at play) so we advocate that involved parties consider a range of potential solutions, rather than either assuming any single solution to be universally optimal or relying on a solution simply because it is familiar and feasible. Moving rapidly to optimally effective invasive plant management in wetlands may not be realistic, but making steady, incremental progress by implementing appropriate solutions based on clearly identified constraints will be critical to eventually attaining wetland restoration goals.

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“…For example, in the United States, the coordinated use of ecological data is critical for the proper management of invasive species in the coastal wetlands of the Laurentian Great Lakes. An increasingly number of researchers and government programs have been increasingly calling for the use of data in management activities to increase the likelihood of success and add transparency in decision making 6 . The influence of anthropogenic factors on the greenness of vegetation and the associated climate change have been studied in the Tibetan plateau 7 .…”

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Design and implementation of ecological data collection management software based on DOI mechanism

Liu¹,

Yuan²,

Wang³

et al. 2022

5th International Conference on Computer Information Science and Application Technology (CISAT 2022)

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Ecological data as a resource for invasive species management in U.S. Great Lakes coastal wetlands

Cited by 5 publications

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Intra-decadal increase in globally-spread Magallana gigas in southern California estuaries

Intra-decadal increase in globally-spread Magallana gigas in southern California estuaries

We Can Better Manage Ecosystems by Connecting Solutions to Constraints: Learning from Wetland Plant Invasions

Design and implementation of ecological data collection management software based on DOI mechanism

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