Factoid/2013/03/01
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Beach Nourishment Often Degrades Habitat for Shorebirds and Fish
- "The work reported here and studies by others have shown that beach nourishment as now practiced degrades the important swash-zone feeding habitat for both probing shorebirds (Quammen 1982; VanDusen et al., UNC, Inst of Marine Sciences, unpubl data) and demersal surf fishes (our study)." - excerpt from Degradation of Surf-Fish Foraging Habitat Driven by Persistent Sedimentological Modifications Caused by Beach Nourishment by Lisa M Manning, Charles H Peterson, and Stephen R Fegley.
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