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Habitat Suitability Index Models: Gulf of Mexico American Oyster
Habitat Suitability Index Models: Gulf of Mexico American Oyster
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The American or eastern oyster (Crassostrea virrinica [Gmelin]), a bivalve
in the family Ostreidae, is an important commercia and recreational species
along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of North America and other areas
(U.S. Pacific coast and Hawaii) where it has been introduced (Galtsoff 1964).
It evolved over the last 25 million years (Miocene and Pliocene epochs) from an
ancestral, Atlantic-Pacific species that also gave rise to the Central American
oyster of the Pacific coast, Crassostrea corteziensis.
It evolved to fill a eurytopic niche in coastal estuaries where it forms massive
reefs in nearshore bays, sounds, lagoons, and river mouths. Its existence
depends on suitable substratum (cultch and firm bottom sediments) and acceptable salinity conditions. The location and distribution of oyster reefs in a salt marsh-estuari ne ecosystem are not accidental; rather, they result from the interact i on of many biological, chemical, geological, and physical processes.
in the family Ostreidae, is an important commercia and recreational species
along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of North America and other areas
(U.S. Pacific coast and Hawaii) where it has been introduced (Galtsoff 1964).
It evolved over the last 25 million years (Miocene and Pliocene epochs) from an
ancestral, Atlantic-Pacific species that also gave rise to the Central American
oyster of the Pacific coast, Crassostrea corteziensis.
It evolved to fill a eurytopic niche in coastal estuaries where it forms massive
reefs in nearshore bays, sounds, lagoons, and river mouths. Its existence
depends on suitable substratum (cultch and firm bottom sediments) and acceptable salinity conditions. The location and distribution of oyster reefs in a salt marsh-estuari ne ecosystem are not accidental; rather, they result from the interact i on of many biological, chemical, geological, and physical processes.
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