Horse mussel reef ecosystem services: evidence for a whelk nursery habitat supporting a shellfishery
Demonstrating the benefits that marine ecosystems provide to society can support marine spatial planning and enhance the protection of fragile, biodiverse habitats. However, the importance of ecosystem services provided by such habitats is rarely accounted for in spatial management due to a lack of...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3263005 2023-05-15T17:13:03+02:00 Horse mussel reef ecosystem services: evidence for a whelk nursery habitat supporting a shellfishery Kent, Flora E. A. Gray, Mark J. Last, Kim S. Sanderson, William G. 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3263005 https://figshare.com/collections/Horse_mussel_reef_ecosystem_services_evidence_for_a_whelk_nursery_habitat_supporting_a_shellfishery/3263005 unknown Figshare https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21513732.2016.1188330 CC-BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us CC-BY 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified FOS Earth and related environmental sciences Ecology FOS Biological sciences Sociology FOS Sociology 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified Marine Biology Inorganic Chemistry FOS Chemical sciences Collection article 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3263005 https://doi.org/10.1080/21513732.2016.1188330 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Demonstrating the benefits that marine ecosystems provide to society can support marine spatial planning and enhance the protection of fragile, biodiverse habitats. However, the importance of ecosystem services provided by such habitats is rarely accounted for in spatial management due to a lack of detailed information. The present study investigated the ‘habitat provision’ ecosystem service delivered by horse mussel ( Modiolus modiolus (L.)) reefs, a ‘Priority Marine Habitat’ in the NE Atlantic. By working with local fishers, the abundance and demographics of commercially important whelks ( Buccinum undatum ) were examined. B. undatum catches were three times higher on reef sites and a greater number of smaller individuals were caught on the reefs compared to off-reef habitats. We therefore show that these productive and physically complex mussel reefs are important feeding and nursery areas for whelks, demonstrating the ‘essential fish habitat’ value of the now rare M. modiolus reefs. The results are discussed in the context of marine spatial planning and the potential for historically more widespread shellfish habitats to have been capable of providing substantial ecosystem services. Edited By Alexander van Oudenhoven Edited By Alexander van Oudenhoven Article in Journal/Newspaper Modiolus modiolus DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Demonstrating the benefits that marine ecosystems provide to society can support marine spatial planning and enhance the protection of fragile, biodiverse habitats. However, the importance of ecosystem services provided by such habitats is rarely accounted for in spatial management due to a lack of detailed information. The present study investigated the ‘habitat provision’ ecosystem service delivered by horse mussel ( Modiolus modiolus (L.)) reefs, a ‘Priority Marine Habitat’ in the NE Atlantic. By working with local fishers, the abundance and demographics of commercially important whelks ( Buccinum undatum ) were examined. B. undatum catches were three times higher on reef sites and a greater number of smaller individuals were caught on the reefs compared to off-reef habitats. We therefore show that these productive and physically complex mussel reefs are important feeding and nursery areas for whelks, demonstrating the ‘essential fish habitat’ value of the now rare M. modiolus reefs. The results are discussed in the context of marine spatial planning and the potential for historically more widespread shellfish habitats to have been capable of providing substantial ecosystem services. Edited By Alexander van Oudenhoven Edited By Alexander van Oudenhoven |
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Kent, Flora E. A. Gray, Mark J. Last, Kim S. Sanderson, William G. |
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Horse mussel reef ecosystem services: evidence for a whelk nursery habitat supporting a shellfishery |
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Horse mussel reef ecosystem services: evidence for a whelk nursery habitat supporting a shellfishery |
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Horse mussel reef ecosystem services: evidence for a whelk nursery habitat supporting a shellfishery |
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Horse mussel reef ecosystem services: evidence for a whelk nursery habitat supporting a shellfishery |
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horse mussel reef ecosystem services: evidence for a whelk nursery habitat supporting a shellfishery |
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