Louisiana Project
Use of Bio-Engineered Reefs for Shoreline Stabilization
May 2008 - April 2012
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While living shorelines have become a valuable tool to stabilize marsh, and enhance fisheries production locally, this project seeks to understand what factors control the ability of the living shoreline to develop long-term sustainable oyster populations, and how reef complexity affects fisheries enhancement.
| Presentations | Presentation Date |
|---|---|
| La Peyre, M.K. and A. Humphries. 2010. Effects of shoreline reef creation on edge erosion, marsh resilience and nekton community assemblages in Louisiana. International Conference on Shellfish Restoration, Charleston, SC. Nov 2010 | November 2010 |
| Casas, S., J. La Peyre and M. La Peyre. 2010. Oyster Reefs as a Restoration Tool: Do Reef Structure, Physicochemical Conditions, and Wave Energy Environment Affect Reef Sustainability? State of the Coast meeting. BAton Rouge, LA June 2010 | June 2010 |
| A. Humphries and M.K. La Peyre. 2009. Linking structural complexity in created oyster reefs to nekton use and provision of refuge. Estuarine Research Federation Meeting. Portland, OR, Nov 1-5. | November 2009 |
| Humphries, A. and M.K. La Peyre. 2010. Habitat structural complexity alters the refuge value of created eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) reefs. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. Jan 3-7, 2010. | January 2010 |
| Casas, S., J. La Peyre, M. La Peyre. 2010. Oyster Reefs as a Restoration Tool: Do Reef Structure, Physicochemical Conditions, and Wave Energy Environment Affect Reef Sustainability? International Conference on Shellfish Restoration. Charleston, SC Nov 2010 | November 2010 |
| Theses and Dissertations | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| Humphries, Austin T. 2010. Effects of habitat structural complexity on nekton assemblages: lab and field observations in southern Louisiana. Louisiana State University, MS Thesis. 70pp. | July 2010 |