Oyster restoration to recover ecosystem services

RS Smith, JL Pruett - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Oyster reef loss represents one of the most dramatic declines of a foundation species
worldwide. Oysters provide valuable ecosystem services (ES), including habitat …

Meta‐analysis of ecosystem services associated with oyster restoration

RS Smith, SL Cheng, MCN Castorani - Conservation Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Restoration of foundation species promises to reverse environmental degradation and
return lost ecosystem services, but a lack of standardized evaluation across projects limits …

Restored oyster reefs match multiple functions of natural reefs within a decade

RS Smith, B Lusk, MCN Castorani - Conservation Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global declines of foundation species have reduced ecological function at population,
community, and ecosystem levels. Restoration of foundation species promises to counter …

Development of pervious oyster shell habitat (POSH) concrete for reef restoration and living shorelines

MJ Uddin, KJ Smith, CW Hargis - Construction and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigated the development of a more durable and sustainable cementitious
composite substrate for oyster reef restoration using recycled oyster shells and low cement …

Multiplexed printed sensors for in situ monitoring in bivalve aquaculture

SE Wu, N Phongphaew, Y Zhai, L Yao, HH Hsu… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Non-intrusive sensors that can be attached to marine species offer opportunities to study the
impacts of environmental changes on their behaviors and well-being. This work presents a …

Divergence in salinity tolerance of northern Gulf of Mexico eastern oysters under field and laboratory exposure

DA Marshall, SM Casas, WC Walton… - Conservation …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, is a foundation species within US Gulf of Mexico
(GoM) estuaries that has experienced substantial population declines. As changes from …

Are we falling short on restoring oysters at a regional scale?

MK La Peyre, DA Marshall, SCL Buie… - Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Across coastal areas of the northern Gulf of Mexico, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill resulted
in significant ecological injury, and over 8 billion USD directed to restoration activities …

First-Year Performance of the Pervious Oyster Shell Habitat (POSH) along Two Energetic Shorelines in Northeast Florida

H Mathews, MJ Uddin, CW Hargis, KJ Smith - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Novel living shoreline methods are being developed to minimize negative environmental
impact while maintaining strength and effectiveness in high-energy systems. The “Pervious …

[HTML][HTML] Some like it hot: the ecology, ecosystem benefits and restoration potential of oyster reefs in tropical waters

MA Richardson, Y Zhang, RM Connolly… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Oysters are ecosystem engineers that form biogenic reef habitats in shallow coastal and
estuarine waters and provide important ecosystem services. Widespread global declines …

If you build it, they will come: restoration positively influences free-living and parasite diversity in a restored tidal marsh

CS Moore, RK Gittman, BJ Puckett, EH Wellman… - Food Webs, 2020 - Elsevier
Ecological monitoring studies have shown that surrogate species can provide good
predictive power for the community diversity of other taxa. In our study, we sampled for …