Journal
RESTORATION ECOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 4-7Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12328
Keywords
Crassostrea gigas; Crassostrea virginica; intertidal; reef performance; subtidal; tidal emersion; vertical zonation
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- Building with Nature program of the NWO division for the Earth and Life Sciences [ALW850.13.020]
- NC Marine Resources Fund
- National Science Foundation [OCE-1155628]
- User Support Space Research program of the NWO division for the Earth and Life Sciences (ALW)
- Netherlands Space Office (NSO) [ALW-GO-AO/11-35]
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Baggett et al. (2015) identified a set of three universal environmental variables to be monitored for evaluating all oyster habitat restoration projects: salinity, temperature, and dissolved oxygen. Perhaps evidencing a bias toward subtidal reefs, this set of parameters omits another first-order environmental factor, tidal emersion. Intertidal oyster reefs can be the dominant reef habitat in estuaries, with clear zonation in oyster performance across the intertidal exposure gradient. Therefore, we propose to include tidal emersion as a fourth universal environmental parameter when designing and evaluating oyster restoration projects to better encompass the whole environmental spectrum along which reefs occur.
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