Evaluating ecosystem benefits and tradeoffs of living shoreline materials
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Living shorelines currently employ a variety of commercially available materials. Among other things, these materials vary by substrate type, interstitial space, height in relation to mean high water, and slope of the structure at the interface with the water. This study aims to examine and compare the ecosystem benefits and trade-offs to blue crabs, oysters, and other shellfish of concrete-centric vs non-concrete-centric materials for the construction of living shorelines across a variety of wave energies in and around Back and Bogue Sound in Carteret County, North Carolina.
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