Habitat use of Intertidal Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Reefs by Nekton in South Carolina Estuaries

Restoring the eastern oyster: how much progress has been made in 53 years?

“…; Kingsley‐Smith et al . ), possibly reflecting a smaller historical reef area and commensurately lower emphasis on oyster rehabilitation relative to other regions. Since 1999, practitioners have been constructing an average of 7 ha of reef annually across the Southeast, much of which has been distributed across numerous small‐scale shoreline stabilization projects.…”

How do en route events around the Gulf of Mexico influence migratory landbird populations?

“…Additionally, juveniles of the sea turtle species generally migrate to warmer waters during the winter. For some individuals, especially leatherbacks, their nesting sites could be hundreds to thousands of kilome- Fish: GFMC 2004, NMFS 2006, Kingsley-Smith et al 2012, Lehner and Allen 2012; sea turtle and marine mammal: Department of the Navy 2007; bird: Eddleman et al 1994, Gochfeld and Burger 1994, Lewis 1995, Poole et al 2002, Woodin and Michot 2002, Lee and Mackin 2009, Evans et al 2011, Buehler et al 2013 ters from the Gulf on other beaches in the Atlantic Ocean. Although Florida manatees can migrate long distances along the Gulf of Mexico coast during the summer, perhaps in search of suitable foraging areas, the majority of their migratory movements are limited to locating springs and artificial warm water sites where they aggregate in the winter.…”

Application of management tools to integrate ecological principles with the design of marine infrastructure

“…1 and 2D,H). For example, in the United States oyster castles have been successfully employed where oyster spat attach to and grow on reef structures (Black, 2011;Kingsley-Smith et al, 2012). In Louisiana, experimental intertidal oyster shell reefs (25 Â 1.0 Â 0.7 m) were constructed within 5 m of eroding marsh shorelines to assess their potential as natural shoreline protection tools (Piazza et al, 2005).…”