Quantifying the impacts of future shoreline modification on biodiversity in a case study of coastal Georgia, United States.

ABSTRACT: People often modify the shoreline to mitigate erosion and protect property from storm impacts. The 2 main approaches to modification are gray infrastructure (e.g., bulkheads and seawalls) and natural or green infrastructure (NI) (e.g., living shorelines). Gray infrastructure is still more often used for coastal protection than NI, despite having more detrimental effects on ecosystem parameters, such as biodiversity. We assessed the impact of gray infrastructure on biodiversity and whether the adoption of NI can mitigate its loss. We examined the literature to quantify the relationship of gray infrastructure and NI to biodiversity and developed a model with temporal geospatial data on ecosystem distribution and shoreline modification to project future shoreline modification for our study lo

SUBMITTER: Coleman DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11780223 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature