scholarly journals Recruitment enhancement varies by taxonomic group and oyster reef habitat characteristics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa M. Davenport ◽  
A. Randall Hughes ◽  
Philine S.E. zu Ermgassen ◽  
Jonathan H. Grabowski
Keyword(s):  
Oyster Reef ◽  
Habitat Characteristics ◽  
Taxonomic Group ◽  
Reef Habitat

Development of ecosystem indicators for the Suwannee River estuary: Oyster reef habitat quality along a salinity gradient

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derk C. Bergquist ◽  
Jason A. Hale ◽  
Patrick Baker ◽  
Shirley M. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Quality ◽  
Oyster Reef ◽  
Salinity Gradient ◽  
River Estuary ◽  
Reef Habitat ◽  
Suwannee River ◽  
Ecosystem Indicators

New species of Nematothallus from the Silurian Bloomsburg Formation of Pennsylvania

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 967-982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul K. Strother
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Adaptive Radiation ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Habitat Characteristics ◽  
Taxonomic Group ◽  
Terrestrial Plant ◽  
Plant Kingdom ◽  
Three New Species

The early terrestrial fossil record contains numerous Siluro-Devonian problematic Thallophyta which have morphological and habitat characteristics intermediate between the algae and the embryophytic plant kingdom. Three new species of the genus Nematothallus Lang (N. taenia, N. lobata, and N. elliptica) are described from a coaly lens in the Bloomsburg Formation (Ludlow). They are included in the order Nematophytales, which is placed in a new informal taxonomic group, Paraphyta, intended to include enigmatic, terrestrial plant-like fossils. These species designations are based upon the gross morphology of carbonized thalli which consist of an underlying anatomy of flattened tubular elements. The association and attachment of cuticles and axes of ?Prototaxites to Nematothallus is clearly demonstrated in these collections. The morphological and anatomical variety expressed in the numerous fragments of thalli from the deposit implies moderate levels of organic diversity in a “flora” of nonvascular, terrestrial plant-like thallophytes which predates the adaptive radiation of the embryophytes.

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