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Phase Ii Of Tidal Marsh Restoration At Steedman Woods Reserve At York, Maine, David M. Burdick, Chris Peter, Gregg Moore
Phase Ii Of Tidal Marsh Restoration At Steedman Woods Reserve At York, Maine, David M. Burdick, Chris Peter, Gregg Moore
Jackson Estuarine Laboratory
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Quantifying The Loss Of A Marine Ecosystem Service: Filtration By The Eastern Oyster In Us Estuaries, Philine S. E. Zu Ermgassen, Mark D. Spalding, Raymond E. Grizzle, Robert D. Brumbaugh
Quantifying The Loss Of A Marine Ecosystem Service: Filtration By The Eastern Oyster In Us Estuaries, Philine S. E. Zu Ermgassen, Mark D. Spalding, Raymond E. Grizzle, Robert D. Brumbaugh
Jackson Estuarine Laboratory
The oyster habitat in the USA is a valuable resource that has suffered significant declines over the past century. While this loss of habitat is well documented, the loss of associated ecosystem services remains poorly quantified. Meanwhile, ecosystem service recovery has become a major impetus for restoration. Here we propose a model for estimating the volume of water filtered by oyster populations under field conditions and make estimates of the contribution of past (c. 1880–1910) and present (c. 2000–2010) oyster populations to improving water quality in 13 US estuaries. We find that filtration capacity of oysters has declined almost universally …