About GCX Ecosystem Management
EPA's study of ecosystem management of coastal areas adaption relevance to climate change includes the results of the study of the following projects:
- Coral Reef Adaptation: EPA utilized the Adaptation Design Tool for the coral reef adaptation project to provide valued ecosystem services such as fisheries, coastal protection, and tourism with a plan when these are threatened by the effects of increased sea surface temperatures, sea level rise, and intensifying storms.
- Delaware Bay Wetland: Coastal salt marshes - which provide valued ecosystem services such as flood control, water purification and critical habitat - are vulnerable to ongoing sea level rise, which is interacting with physical and biological attributes of the system to induce complex changes in salt marsh habitats.