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How dense is dense? Toward a harmonized approach to characterizing reefs of non-native Pacific oysters – with consideration of native mussels [PDF]

NeoBiota, 2020
Pacific oysters Crassostrea (Magallana) gigas have been successfully invading ecosystems worldwide. As an ecosystem engineer, they have the potential to substantially impact on other species and on functional processes of invaded ecosystems.
Alexandra Markert
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Assessment of Community Structure and Carbon Storage of Oyster Reefs in Different Habitats of Hainan Island [PDF]

Progress in Fishery Sciences
Often referred to as renowned "ecosystem engineers", oyster reefs perform crucial ecological functions, such as water purification, providing habitat and shelter for other organisms, and stabilizing coastlines.
Bao Lingxiang, Hu Qingsong, Sun Hao, Zhou Duyuan, Yang Yi, Lü Shuguo, Wang Aimin, Liu Chunsheng   +7 more
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Oyster larvae settle in response to habitat-associated underwater sounds. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Following a planktonic dispersal period of days to months, the larvae of benthic marine organisms must locate suitable seafloor habitat in which to settle and metamorphose.
Ashlee Lillis, David B Eggleston, DelWayne R Bohnenstiehl   +2 more
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The potential impact of human interventions at different scales in offshore wind farms to promote flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) reef development in the southern North Sea

Aquatic Living Resources, 2023
Incorporation of ecology and ecosystem services into marine infrastructural developments has gained interest over the last decades. Growing attention is given to combine the massive roll-out of offshore wind farms in the North Sea with reinstating the ...
ter Hofstede Remment, Williams Gregory, van Koningsveld Mark   +2 more
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A restoration suitability index model for the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) in the Mission-Aransas Estuary, TX, USA.

PLoS ONE, 2012
Oyster reefs are one of the most threatened marine habitats on earth, with habitat loss resulting from water quality degradation, coastal development, destructive fishing practices, overfishing, and storm impacts.
Jennifer Beseres Pollack, Andrew Cleveland, Terence A Palmer, Anthony S Reisinger, Paul A Montagna   +4 more
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Success of concrete and crab traps in facilitating Eastern oyster recruitment and reef development [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Background Abundance of the commercially and ecologically important Eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, has declined across the US Eastern and Gulf coasts in recent decades, spurring substantial efforts to restore oyster reefs.
Emma E. Johnson, Miles D. Medina, Ada C. Bersoza Hernandez, Gregory A. Kusel, Audrey N. Batzer, Christine Angelini   +5 more
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Tidal emersion effects on universal metrics, elemental contents, and health conditions of Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) on artificial reefs in Yellow River Delta, China

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023
Oysters form natural reefs and are important coastal foundation species that provide a wide range of ecosystem services. Clarification of the mechanisms by which tidal emersion affects oyster reef performance will help guide and direct future oyster reef
Shen-Tong Wang, Wei Wang, Lu-Ping Wang, Li Li, Guo-Fan Zhang   +4 more
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Reef Beat education series: our Great Barrier Reef [PDF]

, 2003
In 2003, Reef Beat was developed as a curriculum-based education program for students who read the Newspapers in Education (NIE) lift out in local newspapers Townsville Bulletin and News Mail, the Daily Mercury. Newspaper editorials (feature articles) in

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Oyster Reef Surfaces in the Central Wadden Sea: Intra-Reef Classification and Comprehensive Statistical Description

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The Pacific oyster (Magallana gigas) is an invasive species in the Wadden Sea transforming parts of it permanently. M. gigas, as an ecosystem engineer, builds reef structures that are characterized by highly complex and variable surfaces consisting of ...
Jan Hitzegrad, Leon Brohmann, Kai Pfennings, Tom K. Hoffmann, Anne K. Eilrich, Anne K. Eilrich, Maike Paul, Mario Welzel, Torsten Schlurmann, Torsten Schlurmann, Jochen Aberle, Achim Wehrmann, Nils Goseberg, Nils Goseberg   +13 more
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Successful recruitment, survival and long-term persistence of eastern oyster and hooked mussel on a subtidal, artificial restoration reef system in Chesapeake Bay. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Restoration efforts with native eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, in Chesapeake Bay and elsewhere have been limited by shell availability, necessitating the use of alternative structures as subtidal reefs, yet these have rarely been evaluated ...
Romuald N Lipcius, Russell P Burke
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