Building Coastal Dunes with Sea Oats and Surrogate Wrack
Perennial coastal grasses such as sea oats have long been recognized as the biological engineers of our increasingly stressed beaches and coastal dunes. Sea oats build dunes by capturing blowing sand and stabilizing it, and they’re often planted after dunes have been eroded, fragmented, or destroye...
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Perennial coastal grasses such as sea oats have long been recognized as the biological engineers of our increasingly stressed beaches and coastal dunes. Sea oats build dunes by capturing blowing sand and stabilizing it, and they’re often planted after dunes have been eroded, fragmented, or destroyed. Managers have tried commercial fertilizers and water-absorbing gels to ensure planted sea oats survive and thrive, but these products are not always effective and can be expensive. Removal of natural beach litter, called “wrack” and defined as “algae, grasses, driftwood, fruits, seeds, and carrion, along with cultural litter,” has frequently had the undesired effect of weakening the establishment and growth of sea oats. A relatively cheap and effective method to restore them is to reproduce the beneficial effects of this beach litter with “surrogate wrack.” This 4-page fact sheet describes the promising results of a study into the feasibility and effectiveness of surrogate wrack to help sea oats become established and grow more quickly and vibrantly to restore dunes and beaches. Written by Natalie Hooton, Debbie Miller, Mack Thetford, and Sean Claypool, and published by the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, August 2016.
WEC364/UW409: Building Coastal Dunes with Sea Oats and Surrogate Wrack (ufl.edu)
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| spelling | doaj-art-55bbe6f7cf3e453781f61b8cdee4db072025-02-08T05:56:57ZengThe University of Florida George A. Smathers LibrariesEDIS2576-00092016-09-0120167Building Coastal Dunes with Sea Oats and Surrogate WrackNatalie Hooton0Debbie L. Miller1Mack Thetford2Sean Claypool3Environmental Servies Greater Pittsburgh AreaUniversity of FloridaUniversity of FloridaUniversity of Florida Perennial coastal grasses such as sea oats have long been recognized as the biological engineers of our increasingly stressed beaches and coastal dunes. Sea oats build dunes by capturing blowing sand and stabilizing it, and they’re often planted after dunes have been eroded, fragmented, or destroyed. Managers have tried commercial fertilizers and water-absorbing gels to ensure planted sea oats survive and thrive, but these products are not always effective and can be expensive. Removal of natural beach litter, called “wrack” and defined as “algae, grasses, driftwood, fruits, seeds, and carrion, along with cultural litter,” has frequently had the undesired effect of weakening the establishment and growth of sea oats. A relatively cheap and effective method to restore them is to reproduce the beneficial effects of this beach litter with “surrogate wrack.” This 4-page fact sheet describes the promising results of a study into the feasibility and effectiveness of surrogate wrack to help sea oats become established and grow more quickly and vibrantly to restore dunes and beaches. Written by Natalie Hooton, Debbie Miller, Mack Thetford, and Sean Claypool, and published by the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, August 2016. WEC364/UW409: Building Coastal Dunes with Sea Oats and Surrogate Wrack (ufl.edu) https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/128002West Florida REC -- MiltonDune RestorationUW409 |
| spellingShingle | Natalie Hooton Debbie L. Miller Mack Thetford Sean Claypool Building Coastal Dunes with Sea Oats and Surrogate Wrack EDIS West Florida REC -- Milton Dune Restoration UW409 |
| title | Building Coastal Dunes with Sea Oats and Surrogate Wrack |
| title_full | Building Coastal Dunes with Sea Oats and Surrogate Wrack |
| title_fullStr | Building Coastal Dunes with Sea Oats and Surrogate Wrack |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building Coastal Dunes with Sea Oats and Surrogate Wrack |
| title_short | Building Coastal Dunes with Sea Oats and Surrogate Wrack |
| title_sort | building coastal dunes with sea oats and surrogate wrack |
| topic | West Florida REC -- Milton Dune Restoration UW409 |
| url | https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/128002 |
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