date:Jun 15, 2012
'Historical ecology with real numbers', published inProceedings of the Royal Society B, presents the first truly quantitative estimates of decline in oyster habitat over such a large spatial and temporal scale.
The findings show that while that oyster reef area declined by 64 per cent over the last century, the total biomass, or living weight of oysters on reefs, had dropped by 88 per cent during this period, revealing that simple physical area is an unreliable indicator of habitat status.
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