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Clam Garden Bivalve Dietary Responses And Trophic Shifts In Relation To Environment, Octavio Cruz
Clam Garden Bivalve Dietary Responses And Trophic Shifts In Relation To Environment, Octavio Cruz
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Clam gardens are a method of Indigenous aquaculture, involving altering of beach gradients, to increase clam habitat that have been used since pre-contact. Ecological examinations of clam gardens have been increasingly led by First Nations groups, as restoration projects begin on clam gardens aiming to re-establish pre-contact conditions.
The purpose of this study was to measure condition indices of traditionally-harvested littleneck clams (Leukoma staminea), dietary parameters and beach-level oceanographic conditions were used to investigate differences between clam gardens from non-walled beaches in Kanish Bay, Quadra Island, British Columbia. I utilized non-metric multidimensional scaling, distance-based redundancy analysis, and Bayesian 3-source isotopic …