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Artificial Reefs and People: How We Create Them and How They Affect Us
EDIS, 2021 Artificial reefs are constructed to provide several important ecosystem services to coastal communities and fisheries around the world, and their deployment results in significant socio-ecological and economic effects.
Lisa Chong +4 more
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Artificial Reefs in Florida 101: Effects on Fisheries--Part 4 of an Artificial Reef series
EDIS, 2022 Increasingly, coastal managers are placing artificial reefs in marine waters. These long-lasting habitat alterations have measurable effects on fish, fishers, divers, fisheries, and marine social ecological systems.
Lisa Chong +5 more
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Environments, 2023 Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in marine restoration, requiring a consideration of various approaches for optimal success. Artificial reefs (ARs) have been employed for marine restoration and fisheries management, but their ...
Carolina Bracho-Villavicencio +2 more
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Assessment of the Materials Employed in Green Artificial Reefs for the Galician Estuaries in Terms of Circular Economy. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 To exploit marine resources in a sustainable way, efficient management systems must be used such as green artificial reefs (GARs). These reefs are mostly made up of renewable and organic materials.
Carral L +4 more
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Fish and Fisheries, 2023 Artificial reefs have been widely deployed with the intention of increasing fish habitat, enhancing recreational fishery opportunities and providing socio‐economic benefits to surrounding communities.
Lisa Chong +4 more
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The impacts of artificial light at night on the ecology of temperate and tropical reefs
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2023 Despite 22% of the world's coastal regions experiencing some degree of light pollution, and biologically important artificial light at night (ALAN) reaching large portions of the seafloor (greater than 75%) near coastal developments, the impacts of ALAN ...
E. Fobert +3 more
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Fitting ecological principles of artificial reefs into the ocean planning puzzle
Ecosphere, 2022 Humans use the coastal ocean and its resources as a source of food and energy, as well as for a variety of other purposes, including transportation and recreation.
Avery B. Paxton +3 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 A novel modular floating structure (MFS) system moored by tension legs was proposed, which is composed of hexagonal floating modules, floating artificial reefs and wave energy converters (WECs).
Yanwei Li, Nian-xin Ren, Xiang Li, J. Ou
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Artificial reefs in Turkey [PDF]
ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2002 Artificial reef deployment in Turkish waters and results from monitoring studies are described. The first known project with 10 old trolley-bus bodies was in 1989, and presently there are six ongoing projects in which reinforced concrete modules of five different designs are being used.
Lok, A +4 more
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Bulletin of marine science, 2021 The long history of artificial reefs has stimulated diversity in their physical properties and deployment for a range of purposes. A systematic literature search yielded 804 scientific publications on artificial reefs.
Lachlan AW Ramm +4 more
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