Impacts of Hurricane Sandy and White-tailed Deer on Maritime Vegetation Recovery at Fire Island National Seashore (FIIS): Deer movements and proximity to sensitive or hurricane impacted zone

Impacts of Hurricane Sandy and White-tailed Deer on Maritime Vegetation Recovery at Fire Island National Seashore (FIIS): Deer movements and proximity to sensitive or hurricane impacted zone. Research Permit and Reporting System

On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy made landfall off the coast ofsouthern New Jersey. Classified as a Category 2 storm, Sandy was unusualbecause of its low central pressure which manifest in record storm surges upand down the New York and New Jersey coasts (Underwood 2005). Ofparticular interest to this study is Fire Island National Seashore, a barrierisland off the coast of Long Island, New York (Fig. 1). Hurricane Sand ydrastically changed the morphology of the beach by uprooting vegetation

Type
Unpublished Report
Publisher
Research Permit and Reporting System
Units
FIIS

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