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Tree roots are underminded by wave action and eventually succumb while the shoreline is eroded.
Eroded shoreline with tree snags
Stone rip-rap installed by the property owners in an attempt to prevent shoreline erosion. Hardened edges along the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers reduces natural shoreline habitat that fish and other marine animals depend on for food and shelter.
Hardened shoreline prevents erosion
A conceptual diagram illustrates the practice of planting or maintaining buffer vegetation along the water's edge.
Buffer Vegetation as a Key Stewardship Behavior
An image depicts a rain garden, which is a bed of vegetation planted for the specific purpose of retaining rainwater and limiting runoff.
Rain Gardens as a Key Stewardship Behavior
An image depicts a house where an impervious concrete driveway has been replaced by special pavers that allow the ground below to retain water.
The Reduction of Hard Surfaces as a Key Watershed…
Excess nutrients will result in increased chlorophyll and turbidity, limiting the amount of light that reaches benthic sediment. Light is essential for healthy submerged aquatic vegetation growth.
Light and Dark Conditions Impact on Submerged…
A diagram depicting the effect that light conditions have on SAV and the trapping of nutrients.
Nutrient Trapping Diagram
Illustration of a building with a green roof covered in vegetation, used to reduce heat and rainwater runoff in heavily urbanized areas.
Urban: green roof 3
Illustration of wildfire.
Climate change: wildfire
Sunlight piercing the dense canopy of saw palmetto palms, live oak trees, bromeliads, ferns, and Spanish moss. Myakka River State Park, Sarasota, Florida.
Florida forest
Large sandy areas on a Bahamian island in the Exumas had many flowering cacti.
Sweet prickly pear (Opuntia dillenii)
Conceptual diagram illustrating how phytoplankton blooms in eastern Florida Bay and southern Biscayne Bay were sustained through feedback loops among ecosystem components.
Phytoplankton bloom feedback loops
Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) beds in the Choptank River
SAV bed in the Choptank
Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) beds in the Choptank River
SAV in the Choptank
Located in Maryland, USA
Patuxent River
Conceptual diagram illustrating the elements that contribute towards a healthy lagoon that has a good balance of nutrient and biota, versus the elements of a eutrophic ecosystem, which includes increased sediment and nutrient from farming and industry, and creates for an unhealthy lagoon.
Healthy & eutrophic coastal lagoons
Illustration of building (shops) with an eco-friendly green roof, covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane
Urban: green roof 2
Hungars Creek on the eastern shore of Virginia, with shoals and seagrass visible
Hungars Creek
Hungars Creek on the eastern shore of Virginia, with shoals and seagrass visible
Hungars Creek
Mattawoman Creek on the eastern shore of Virginia, with shoals and seagrass visible
Mattawoman Creek
New Point, Virginia, on the northern shores of Mobjack Bay
New Point, Virginia
New Point, Virginia, on the northern shores of Mobjack Bay
New Point, Virginia
New Point, Virginia, on the northern shores of Mobjack Bay
New Point, Virginia
Looking northwest over Sandy Point on Gwynns Island, Virginia. Seagrass (submerged aquatic vegetation) is visible behind the sand shoals. The Piankatank River is in the background
Sandy Point
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