Restoration that targets function as opposed to structure: replacing lost bivalve production and filtration

• Main Authors: French McCay, Deborah P., Peterson, Charles H., DeAlteris, Joseph T., Catena, John
• Other Authors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Limiting factors; Natural resource damage assessment; Restoration; North Cape¹ oil spill; Population modeling; Loss; Bivalves; North Cape
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17615/ns30-3327; https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/downloads/dv140313g?file=thumbnail; https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/downloads/dv140313g

ABSTRACT: Abundant suspension-feeding bivalves have a dominant organizing role in shallow aquatic systems by filtering overlying waters, affecting biogeochemical processing, and diverting production from the water column to the benthos. In degraded aquatic systems where bivalve populations have been...