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

• Main Authors: Catena, John, Peterson, Charles H., DeAlteris, Joseph T., French McCay, Deborah P.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries 2003
• Subjects: North Cape
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17615/ns30-3327; https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/articles/f4752s08f

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...