Mimicry of emergent traits amplifies coastal restoration success
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- Nature Communications
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Publication Date
- Jul 21, 2020
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17438-4
- Source
- Springer Nature
- License
- Green
Abstract
Coastal restoration tends to be failure-prone and expensive. Temmink and colleagues improve seagrass and cordgrass transplant survival in field experiments using biodegradable structures which temporarily mimic self-facilitation occurring in mature vegetation stands, and combine onsite and laboratory measurements on sediment stability and stem movement to test the biophysical mechanisms.