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Restoration of Coastal Dunes
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Editors
Dr. M.LuisaMartínez Dr. PatrickA.Hesp
Redde EcologíaFunctional School oftheEnvironment
Institutode Ecología,A.C. Faculty ofScience and Engineering
Xalapa, Veracruz Flinders University
Mexico Adelaide,SA
Australia
Dr. JuanB. Gallego-Fernández
Departamento de BiologíaVegetal y
Ecología
Universidad deSevilla
Sevilla
Spain
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Preface
The continuously growing human population along the coasts of our world will
exacerbate the impact of human activities on all coastal environments. Therefore,
restoration activities will become increasingly important. In particular, sandy
shores and coastal dunes will require significant restoration efforts because they
are preferred sites for human settlements and tourism. A major problem is that
research into coastal dunes is scarce, despite the relative economic, social, and
ecological importance of these ecosystems. The literature that deals with coastal
dunerestorationhasincreasedsignificantlyoverthelastdecade,butthefewbooks
published on the subject mostly emphasize mid-latitude dune systems. As of
January 2011, the ISI Web of Science database contained more than 60,000
articlesonrestoration,butlessthan100ofthem(\0.1 %)focusoncoastaldunes,
beaches, and slacks (or deflation basins and plains). In general, the information
available on the ecology of coastal sand dunes is very uneven, and broad geo-
graphical syntheses are rare. Examples of local coverage generally come from
Europe and North America. There is a general lack of attention given to low-
latitude coastal environments where much of the current exploitation and coastal
development of tourism is occurring. To our knowledge, there are no books that
deal with coastal dune restoration from a global perspective. The need for a
worldwide compilation of experiences of restoration efforts is therefore evident.
The International Conference on Management and Restoration of Coastal
Dunes(Santander,Spain,3–5October2007)providedanimpetustocompareand
contrast different restoration projects around the world and initiate interdisci-
plinaryandcomparativestudies.Thisbookisthefirststeptowardthedevelopment
ofinternational cooperationamong thoseconcerned aboutcoastal sand dunes and
their restoration.
This book is directed mainly at graduate students and colleagues who are
interested in biological, ecological, geographical, and environmental sciences.
Thisbookwillalsobeusefultothosewithaninterestinconservationbiologyand
coastal management who seek information on the different strategies that have
been used torestorecoastal dunes indifferent regionsofthe world. This goal can
onlybeachievedafteracomprehensivereviewandcomparisonofongoingstudies
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and restoration activities, where ‘‘successful’’ and ‘‘failed’’ studies or approaches
(however they are determined) are compared and contrasted. Finally, this book
will be a resource for coastal planners, as well as for local and state officials,
residentsofcoastalcommunities,environmentaladvocates,developers,andothers
concerned with coastal issues.
A major product of this book is a compendium of empirical experiences
showingthatcoastaldunerestorationhasmanymeanings,andthus,leadstomany
different actions. Coastal dune restoration may have the goal of increasing vege-
tation cover and reducing substrate mobility, but it may also aim to remobilize
sandy terrains in order to counteract the negative impact of overstabilization:
reduceddiversity.Here,therelevanceofthedifferentgoalsinrestorationisshown
very clearly.
Themeetingsheldtoputtogetherthisbookandorganizethechaptersreceived
partial funding from grant no. 23669 (SEMARNAT-CONACYT), coordinated by
M. Luisa Martinez. We are very grateful to Dieter Czseschlik, from Springer-
Verlag,whooriginallyinvitedJuanB.Gallego-Fernándeztowriteaproposalfora
book on coastal dune restoration. It was he who ignited this idea. Lawrence R.
Walker read this book several times and provided very useful comments and
recommendations. We are also grateful to Andrea Schlitzberger for her constant
interest and support throughout the different stages of this book.
Finally, we would like to thank our families and children for bearing with us
while we were writing, assembling, and reviewing all the chapters. Thank you to
Graziela Miot Da Silva, Nicholas Hesp (again!), Jonathan, Phoebe and Sebastian
Hesp, Chary García , María Gallego García, Octavio Pérez-Maqueo, and Valeria
Pérez Martínez.
This book is dedicated to the memory of M. Anwar Maun (1935–2007),
cherishedfriendandcolleaguewhowasaleaderincoastalduneecologicalstudies.
He is dearly missed by us and by all the coastal dune scientific community.
M. Luisa Martínez
Juan B. Gallego-Fernández
Patrick A. Hesp
Contents
1 Coastal Dunes: Human Impact and Need for Restoration . . . . . . 1
M. Luisa Martínez, Patrick A. Hesp and Juan B. Gallego-Fernández
Part I Restoring Foredunes
2 Foredune Restoration in Urban Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Karl F. Nordstrom and Nancy L. Jackson
3 Restoration of Coastal Foredunes, a Geomorphological
Perspective: Examples from New York and
from New Jersey, USA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Norbert P. Psuty and Tanya M. Silveira
4 Natural Plant Diversity Development on a Man-Made
Dune System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Peter Vestergaard
5 Restoration of Foredunes and Transgressive Dunefields:
Case Studies from New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Patrick A. Hesp and Michael J. Hilton
6 Foredune Restoration Before and After Hurricanes:
Inevitable Destruction, Certain Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Rusty Feagin
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Part II Restoring Inland Costal Dunes: Dunefields and Wetslacks
7 Restoration of Dune Mobility in The Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Sebastiaan M. Arens, Quirinus L. Slings, Luc H. W. T. Geelen
and Harrie G. J. M. Van der Hagen
8 The Impact of Dune Stabilization on the Conservation Status
of Sand Dune Systems in Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Peter Rhind, Rod Jones and Laurence Jones
9 Restoration of Andalusian Coastal Juniper Woodlands . . . . . . . . 145
J. C. Muñoz-Reinoso, C. Saavedra Azqueta and I. Redondo Morales
10 Dune Restoration Over Two Decades at the Lanphere
and Ma-le’l Dunes in Northern California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Andrea J. Pickart
11 Restoration of Coastal Sand Dunes for Conservation
of Biodiversity: The Israeli Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Pua Bar (Kutiel)
12 Passive Recovery of Mediterranean Coastal Dunes Following
Limitations to Human Trampling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta, Tommaso Jucker,
Irene Prisco and Riccardo Santoro
13 Restoration of Dune Ecosystems Following Mining
in Madagascar and Namibia: Contrasting Restoration
Approaches Adopted in Regions of High and Low
Human Population Density. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Roy A. Lubke
14 The Impacts on Natural Vegetation Following
the Establishment of Exotic Casuarina Plantations. . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Patricia Moreno-Casasola, M. Luisa Martínez,
Gonzalo Castillo-Campos and Adolfo Campos
15 Restoration of Dune Vegetation in The Netherlands. . . . . . . . . . . 235
Ab P. Grootjans, Bikila S. Dullo, Annemieke M. Kooijman,
Renée M. Bekker and Camiel Aggenbach
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16 Interdune Wetland Restoration in Central Veracruz, Mexico:
Plant Diversity Recovery Mediated by the Hydroperiod. . . . . . . . 255
Hugo López-Rosas, Patricia Moreno-Casasola,
Fabiola López-Barrera, Lorena E. Sánchez-Higueredo,
Verónica E. Espejel-González and Judith Vázquez
Part III The Costs of Coastal Dune Restoration
and Ecosystem Services
17 TheValueofCoastalSandDunesasaMeasuretoPlan
anOptimalPolicyforInvasivePlantSpecies:TheCase
oftheAcaciasalignaattheNizzanimLTERCoastal
SandDuneNatureReserve,Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
David Lehrer, Nir Becker and Pua Kutiel (Bar)
18 The Coasts and Their Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
O. Pérez-Maqueo, M. L. Martínez, D. Lithgow,
G. Mendoza-González, R. A. Feagin and J. B. Gallego-Fernández
Part IV Conclusions
19 Multicriteria Analysis to Implement Actions Leading
to Coastal Dune Restoration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Debora Lithgow, M. Luisa Martínez and Juan B. Gallego-Fernández
20 Coastal Dune Restoration: Trends and Perspectives. . . . . . . . . . . 323
M. Luisa Martínez, Patrick A. Hesp and Juan B. Gallego-Fernández
Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Contributors
AliciaTeresaRosarioAcosta DepartmentofEnvironmentalBiology,Università
di Roma Tre, V.le Marconi 446, 00146 Rome, Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
Camiel Aggenbach DepartmentofEnergyandEnvironmentalStudies,Facultyof
Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Energy and Sustainability Research Institute
Gron,UniversityofGroningen,Nijenborgh4,9747AGGroningen,TheNetherlands
Sebastiaan M. Arens Bureau for Beach and Dune Research, Amsterdam,
TheNetherlands,e-mail:[email protected]
FabiolaLópez Barrera Red deEcología Funcional,Institutode Ecología,A.C.,
AntiguacarreteraaCoatepecNo.351,ElHaya,91070ElHaya,Xalapa,Veracruz,
Mexico
NirBecker DepartmentofEconomicsandManagement,TelHaiCollege,12210
Upper Galilee, Israel, e-mail: [email protected]
Renee Bekker Department of Energy and Environmental Studies, Faculty of
Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Energy and Sustainability Research Institute
Gron,UniversityofGroningen,Nijenborgh4,9747AGGroningen,TheNetherlands
AdolfoCampos ReddeEcologíaFuncional,InstitutodeEcología,A.C.,Antigua
carreteraaCoatepecNo.351,ElHaya,91070ElHaya,Xalapa,Veracruz,Mexico
Gonzalo Castillo-Campos Instituto de Ecología A.C, Red de Biodiversidad,
Xalapa, Veracruz, México
Bikila W. Dullo Department of Energy and Environmental Studies, Faculty of
Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Energy and Sustainability Research Institute
Gron,UniversityofGroningen,Nijenborgh4,9747AGGroningen,TheNetherlands
VerónicaE.EspejelGonzález ReddeEcologíaFuncional,InstitutodeEcología,
A.C., Antigua carretera a Coatepec No. 351, El Haya, 91070 El Haya, Xalapa,
Veracruz, Mexico
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Rusty Feagin Spatial Sciences Laboratory, Department of Ecosystem Science
and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77845, USA, e-
mail: [email protected]
Juan B. Gallego-Fernández Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología,
Universidad de Sevilla, Ap.1095, 41080 Sevilla, Spain, e-mail: [email protected]
Luc H. W. T. Geelen Research and Development, Waternet, Vogelenzang, The
Netherlands
Ab Grootjans Department of Energy and Environmental Studies, Faculty of
Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Energy and Sustainability Research Institute
Gron, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Nether-
lands,e-mail:[email protected]
Harrie G. J. M. Van der Hagen Dunea, Voorburg, The Netherlands
PatrickA.Hesp SchooloftheEnvironment,FacultyofScienceandEngineering,
Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia, e-mail:
Patrick.hesp@flinders.edu.au
Michael J. Hilton Department of Geography (Te Ihowhenua), University of
Otago (Te Whare Wananga o Otago), PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
Nancy L. Jackson Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, New
JerseyInstituteofTechnology,Newark,NJ07102,USA,e-mail:[email protected]
LaurenceJones CentreforEcologyandHydrology,EnvironmentCentreWales,
Deiniol Road, Bangor LL57 2UW, Wales, UK, e-mail: [email protected]
RodJones CountrysideCouncilforWalesBangor,GwyneddLL572DN,Wales,
UK, e-mail: [email protected]
Tommaso Jucker Department of Environmental Biology, Università di Roma
Tre, V.le Marconi 446, 00146 Rome, Italy
AnnemiekeKooijman DepartmentofEnergyandEnvironmentalStudies,Faculty
ofMathematicsandNaturalSciences,EnergyandSustainabilityResearchInstitute
Gron,UniversityofGroningen,Nijenborgh4,9747AGGroningen,TheNetherlands
Pua Bar Kutiel Department of Geography and Environmental Development,
Ben-GurionUniversity,P.O.B.653,84105BeerSheva,Israel,e-mail:kutiel@bgu.
ac.il
David Lehrer The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, 88840 Kibbutz
Ketura, D.N. Hevel Eilot, Israel, e-mail: [email protected]
D. Lithgow Red de Ecología Funcional, Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Antigua
carreteraaCoatepecNo.351,ElHaya,91070ElHaya,Xalapa,Veracruz,Mexico
