ABSTRACT
A 2015 climate change update to the Baylands Ecosystem Habitat Goals Report recommended multihabitat, multiobjective approaches and living shorelines in order to increase resiliency of San Francisco Bay tidal wetlands and associated habitats to climate changes such as sea level rise. Concordant with these recommendations, the San Francisco Bay Living Shorelines: Near-shore Linkages Project was implemented in 2012 by the State Coastal Conservancy and an interdisciplinary team of biological and physical scientists. The San Francisco Bay Living Shorelines: Near-shore Linkages Project further tests restoration techniques, restores critical eelgrass and oyster habitat, examines the individual and interactive effects of restoration techniques on habitat values, and tests alternatives to hard/structural stabilization in a multiobjective pilot climate adaptation and restoration project. The project team is assessing seven candidates sites in SF Bay for a next-phase living shorelines project, to actively enhance four native foundation species: eelgrass and Olympia oysters as in the current project, as well as the tidal marsh plants Pacific cordgrass.
