Maximizing oyster-reef growth supports green infrastructure with accelerating sea-level rise

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ridge, Justin T ^a   Rodriguez, Antonio B ^a   Joel Fodrie, F ^a   Lindquist, Niels L ^a   Brodeur, Michelle C ^a   Coleman, Sara E ^a,c   Grabowski, Jonathan H ^b   Theuerkauf, Ethan J ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AQUACULTURE; CORAL REEF; CRASSOSTREA; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NORTH CAROLINA; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; CORAL REEFS; CRASSOSTREA; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH CAROLINA; OCEANS AND SEAS;

EID: 84943338701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14785     Document Type: Article

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