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A Systems-Level Analysis of Coastal Ecosystem Responses to Hurricane Impacts 1
1654232, by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under award 694
NA15NOS4780185, by support from the Texas College Research Enhancement Fund, by the 695
ongoing sampling efforts of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and by an Institutional 696
Grant (NA14OAR4170102, NA18OAR4170088) to the Texas Sea Grant College Program from 697
the National Sea Grant Office, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. 698
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Fig. 1 Spatial distribution of hurricane weather and sampling sites. Total precipitation from 951
August 25-30 was interpolated using an inverse spline from weather stations throughout the 952
region and is displayed as a color map (source: National Weather Service). Maximum wind 953
speed during the storm was similarly interpolated from weather stations and displayed as 954
contours with red indicating the zone of highest wind speeds. Sampling stations from which data 955
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Fig. 2 Hurricane Harvey Resistance - Resilience synthesis. A) The X-axis is the return time to baseline conditions in days,
representing system resilience (systems which had not returned to baseline were assigned a value of 140 days to avoid biases due to
variation in sampling frequency). The Y-axis is Log Response Ratio (LRR), the natural log of the maximum response divided by the
baseline value, representing system resistance. Each symbol represents a time series of a particular response for a particular
ecosystem type. Symbols with error bars (Standard Error) had multiple spatial locations with the time series. Symbol shape
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represents system type (Triangle = River; Circle = Estuary), and symbol color represents the ecosystem response type (dark blue: