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Coastal Wetland MonitoringMonitoring helps researchers understand the consequences of multiple environmental and anthropogenic stressors on wetland ecosystems. An integrated approach that focuses on ecosystem integrity and sustainability is being employed with long-term data obtained from coastal and inland waters, barrier islands and wetlands. Changes to ecosystems can result from factors that drive behavior in both natural and anthropogenically influenced systems. An understanding of responses to these changes is important when prescribing ecosystem restoration and management strategies that will enhance the sustainability of ecological systems. New tools and methodologies based on long-term data sets are being developed to strengthen the capacity to assess the sustainability of wetland ecosystems with and without restoration and protection investments. This data predicts the potential consequences of disturbance events and climate change to these systems. Research
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