A snappy solution to restoring oyster reefs
Researchers from the University of Adelaide are using underwater music to speed up the restoration of native oyster reefs.
Ecology
Aug 29, 2022
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News tagged with oyster
Once the fish factories and 'kidneys' of colder seas, Australia's decimated shellfish reefs are coming back
Australia once had vast oyster and mussel reefs, which anchored marine ecosystems and provided a key food source for coastal First Nations people. But after colonization, Europeans harvested them for their meat and shells ...
Ecology
Aug 9, 2022
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Florida oysters found to have toxic 'forever chemicals'
Some say the world is your oyster, but the world—especially human impacts on the environment—can actually be found inside an oyster, according to a new study.
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2022
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World's biggest bacterium found in Caribbean mangrove swamp
Scientists have discovered the world's largest bacterium in a Caribbean mangrove swamp.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 26, 2022
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Highly effective CRISPR-mediated gene editing technique for cultured oysters
The oysters, as the representative bivalve mollusk, are widely distributed and support major aquaculture and fishery industries worldwide. However, oysters are still at an early stage of domestication.
Plants & Animals
Jun 15, 2022
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Kelp mitigates ocean acidification, a key to the health and abundance of important shellfish
While kelp is known as a nutritious food item for sea creatures and humans alike, harvesting kelp may be a new way to help keep bivalves such as clams and oysters—a more common food source and marine industry staple—healthy ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 6, 2022
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Baby oysters follow the crackling sound of snapping shrimp
Though oysters may be brainless bivalves, they can "hear" and swim towards attractive sounds of the sea.
Plants & Animals
May 13, 2022
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Bali-like temperatures in Wyoming? Fossils reveal tropically hot North America 95 million years ago
A new University of Michigan study that used fossil oyster shells as paleothermometers found the shallow sea that covered much of western North America 95 million years ago was as warm as today's tropics.
Earth Sciences
May 10, 2022
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Indigenous peoples have shucked billions of oysters around the world sustainably
A new global study of Indigenous oyster fisheries co-led by Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History anthropologist Torben Rick and Temple University anthropologist and former Smithsonian postdoctoral fellow Leslie ...
Ecology
May 3, 2022
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Research discovers a pearl of hope for imperiled oyster reefs
University of Virginia researchers, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, are sharing the good news that the future of oyster reefs, which have experienced greater than 85% loss worldwide over the past two centuries, ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 5, 2022
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