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Oyster reef restoration facilitates the recovery of macroinvertebrate abundance, diversity, and composition in estuarine communities. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2022
Searles AR, Gipson EE, Walters LJ, Cook GS.   +3 more
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A Study of Four Oyster Reefs in Mississippi

Gulf Research Reports, 1979
A study of four oyster populations in Mississippi over 13 months (May 1978-May 1979) indicates that although oysters are sexually developed during most of the year (10 months), setting was variable in intensity, dependent upon location, and limited in all cases to one or two months.
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Ecological Status and Influencing Factors of the Dashentang Oyster Reef in Tianjin

Haiyang Kaifa yu guanli
Oyster reefs are important coastal ecosystem, possessing high economic value and significant ecological service functions.The Dashentang oyster reef in Tianjin is recognized as the modern living oyster reef ecosystem with the highest latitude discovered ...
LIU Sen, WANG Bin, CUI Jian, XU Yushan, CHEN Xiaoran, YU Dan, NIU Fuxin   +6 more
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Habitat mapping for assessing coastal restored oyster reef effects

Understanding surrounding habitat conditions before oyster reef restoration is crucial to assessing its future impacts and achieved goals. The EU-co-funded LIFE NatuReef project may provide a peculiar case study of oyster reef restoration for ...
Fabrizio Del Bianco, Eva Turicchia, Elena Manfredini, Renata Archetti, Massimo Ponti, LIFE NatuReef research team, Massimiliano Costa, Stefano Ravaioli   +7 more
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Systematic Review: The Ecology and Cultural Significance of Oysters in the Arabian Gulf

Diversity
Arabian Gulf oyster reefs, dominated by the pearl oyster Pinctada radiata, function simultaneously as ecological keystones and cultural touchstones. Rapid coastal urbanization and escalating pollution now threaten reef integrity.
Manaf Alkhuzaei, Sabah Aljenaid, Ghadeer Mohamed   +2 more
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Medium-term monitoring reveals effects of El Niño Southern Oscillation climate variability on local salinity and faunal dynamics on a restored oyster reef. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2021
Beseres Pollack J, Palmer TA, Williams AE.   +2 more
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Hurricane impacts on oyster reef habitat in a large, wind-driven estuary

Frontiers in Marine Science
Coastal ecosystems vary in their resistance and resilience to the frequency, intensity, structural characteristics, and path of tropical cyclones. The successive passages of Hurricanes Florence and Dorian, and Tropical Storm Michael during the 2018 and ...
Daniel J. Bowling, Daniel J. Bowling, Olivia N. Caretti, Olivia N. Caretti, David B. Eggleston, David B. Eggleston   +5 more
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Reef beat education series: threats to the Reef [PDF]

, 2016
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority's 2016 Reef Beat education series: Threats to Reef, explores five key threats to the Reef: climate change, coastal development, land-based run-off, impacts of fishing and marine debris.

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Environmental stress gradients regulate the relative importance of predator density- and trait-mediated indirect effects in oyster reef communities. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2021
Pruett JL, Weissburg MJ.
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Estimation of Roughness Height on Oyster Reefs

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
AbstractOyster reefs play a crucial role in coastal protection by attenuating waves and currents, thereby contributing to coastal stability. This protective function is largely due to the significantly greater roughness height of oyster reefs than bare sand surfaces.
M. Lee, Y. S. Park, H. Noh, B. Kim, S. J. Baek   +4 more
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