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Ecosystems & Habitats
National Sea Grant Goals: (1) Develop a quantitative understanding of the structure and function of critical nearshore habitats and coastal ecosystems, and (2) identify the processes that control the transport, transformation and fate of biogeochemically important materials in the nearshore area, the impact of riverine inflows, and the influence of watershed management on coastal and estuarine systems.
Nowhere is an understanding of the linkages between terrestrial and aquatic environments more critical to resource quality, sustainability and management than in the Great Lakes region. With nearly 9,500 miles of shoreline, the Great Lakes are aquatic systems dominated by their coastal watersheds.
Wisconsin Sea Grant’s priorities related to this theme include developing technologies for better spatial and temporal characterization of nearshore environments and coastal ecosystem dynamics, better understanding Great Lakes food webs and how invasive species affect them, and improving the design, function and assessment of coastal habitat rehabilitation and restoration projects.
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