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Oyster Reef Restoration Monitoring
Oyster Reef Restoration Monitoring
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(4) increasing filtration, nutrient cycling, and Although intertidal oyster reefs are not nitrogen, phosphorus, and/or carbon generally harvested in the Gulf of Mexico, they sequestration in tissues and shells to meet the were likely directly affected by oil and act as seed goal of improving water quality or clarity (Dame areas to populate harvested reefs, as well as and Libes, 1993; Nelson et al., 2004; Grizzle et provide a number of other valuable services.
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However, uncertainties still hinder to assess changes in oyster populations on effective restoration efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. constructed reefs due to a lack of replication, For example, in some cases, simply restoring consistent and quantitative methodologies, and natural and historical hydrology to past flow related sampling designs (Kennedy et al., 2011; regimes through removal of man-made Baggett et al., 2014; La Peyre et al., 2014)
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. critical nature of de n eveloping obbjectives and d Withhout the stated objective the abili es, ity to related me etrics a priori and for the objectives to i, o effecctively compa are monitoring results and to be explicitly followed for the variou purposes of f us f asses ss progress toward o oyster restooration restoration monitoring.
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For example, many subtidal Gulf of Mexico oyster reefs, it has been researchers and managers are using objectives suggested that projects should at a minimum tied to specific ecosystem services derived from sample a limited suite of universal metrics that are oyster restoration efforts to guide the choice of used to assess reef, oyster, and environmental monitoring metrics (Coen and Luckenbach, 2000; conditions as well as a project's performance Peterson et al., 2003; NRC, 2004; Coen et al., regardless of its objective(s) (see below and Table 2004; Grabowski et al., 2007, 2012; Pollack et II.1)
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. one wants to "jump start" reef restoration efforts In the past, sampling often only occurred (e.g., in the Chesapeake Bay or Hudson River during daylight hours, on weekdays, in suitable estuary)
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Table II.1 Metrics Conside M ered Good Pracctice to Monitor Oyster Reef R Restoration Activities for Construction, Performance t m Toward Pro oject Objectives, and Program-Level or Large e-Scale Assessmments.
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sites can be used to assess trajectories mentioned in Table II.1, low levels of dissolved of constructed oyster reefs through time (NRC, oxygen is typically less of a concern for intertidal 1992; Coen et al., 1999a; Coen and Luckenbach, oysters than for subtidal oysters, but time of 2000; Baggett et al., 2014, 2015)
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Habitat Suitability Index performance of oyster habitat restoration. Models: Gulf of Mexico Eastern Oyster.
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Restoring oyster reefs to recover ecosystem 2004. A SC Sea Grant Report of a 2004 services.
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on oyster reefs: how habitat structure Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and influences individual performance. Ecological Ecology 298:347-368.
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1995. Early Chesapeake Bay oyster recovery: Native recruitment and growth of the American oyster restoration master plan, Maryland and oyster Crassostrea virginica (Bivalvia: Virginia.
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2016. Quantifying fish and sustaining oyster reefs Journal of Sea Research mobile invertebrate production from a 108:1-9.
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