FIGURES 



1 Location of the three shoreline areas in the San Francisco 



Bay selected for planting 8 



2 Locations of the 23 natural marsh sites A to V 12 



3 Wind rose for Alameda Island, Central San Francisco Bay 13 



4 A cordgrass-ribbed mussel bioconstruct showing top dowling 



used to stabilize the transplant 17 



5 Experimental plot arrangement for Alameda Creek, San Mateo 



shoreline, and Point Pinole . - 19 



6 Natural cordgrass -mussel community 18 



7 Experimental plot arrangement for Alameda Creek showing 



cordgrass-mussel bioconstruct plantings 21 



8 Germination of California cordgrass seed in varying 



salt concentrations 23 



9 Germination of stored California cordgrass seed 24 



10 Survival of plugs with wave breakers and without wavebreakers. . 26 



11 Transplants of smooth cordgrass-ribbed mussel bioconstructs 



at Wachapreague Marsh, Virginia 30 



