Antecedent Geologic Controls on the Distribution of Oyster Reefs in Copano Bay, Texas [PDF]
Copano Bay is a shallow (< 2-3 m), microtidal estuary in south central Texas. In an effort to both determine the distribution as well as investigate the controls on the distribution of oyster reefs, a geophysical survey of Copano Bay was conducted in ...
Piper, Erin Alynn
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Habitat Structural Complexity Alters the Refuge Value of Restored Oyster Reefs
Increased habitat complexity can significantly alter community structure. In coastal and estuarine environments, reefs created by the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica; hereafter oyster) provide significant habitat structure that grows and becomes ...
Megan La Peyre (657090) +1 more
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Habitat benefits of restored oyster reefs and aquaculture to fish and invertebrates in a coastal pond in Rhode Island, US. [PDF]
Ayvazian S +7 more
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Mapping of productive oyster reefs-Galveston Bay, Texas.
24 p.One hundred and sixty oyster reefs in Galveston, Trinity, East and Dickinson Bays were charted. A hand sextant was used in surveying all reefs. Approximately 3,046 hectacres (7,527 acres) of exposed reefs ranging in size from .4-526 ha (1 to 1,300 ...
Hofstetter, R.P., Benefield, R.L.
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How Oyster Reefs Can Affect Finfish Recruitment
Recruitment is a very important life stage for fish which has direct impacts on size of the whole fish population. During this phase, the mortality juvenile fish experience is affected by their density because of competition for the available resources ...
Gabrielle Love +3 more
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Effects of time and harvest on genetic diversity of natural and restored oyster reefs
Oysters serve as keystone species and ecosystem engineers in estuaries due to their fundamental role of providing services to the surrounding environment and to humans.
Eric A. Hoffman +5 more
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Occurrence of Microplastic Pollution at Oyster Reefs and Other Coastal Sites in the Mississippi Sound, USA: Impacts of Freshwater Inflows from Flooding. [PDF]
Scircle A +4 more
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Reef height drives threshold dynamics of restored oyster reefs [PDF]
AM Colden, RJ Latour, RN Lipcius
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Rahui And Marine Construction: Potential For Enhancement of Taonga species
The aims of my study were to investigate whether marine reserves enhance intertidal species used by Māori in a traditional or contemporary sense, and whether artificial structures in the intertidal region (such as wharf and bridge pilings) provide ...
Fox, Danielle
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Modeling hydrodynamic properties of oyster reefs
Understanding how the shape and size of oyster reefs affect pore pressure and wave transmission can help guide efforts to build coastal barriers.
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