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Abstract

The impetus for this special theme grew out of discussions that began several years ago in the NOAA Restoration Center (a division within the Office of Habitat Conservation, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and resulted in a panel session titled "Protection and Restoration: Are We Having an Effect?" at the 2007 meeting of the Estuarine Research Federation (November 4-8, 2007, in Providence RI). The session was developed with the intent to publish a special journal issue with the same theme. The all-day session was divided into three parts: reflections on estuarine restoration by veteran practitioners; regional perspectives from those actively engaged in habitat restoration on different U.S. coasts; and new kinds of technologies and tools. Twenty invited speakers addressed the question "Are we having an effect?" with our habitat restoration efforts in coastal and riverine areas. A subsequent call for papers for the special volume resulted in over a dozen manuscript submissions, most of which were selected for peer review by experts on the various topics covered.