Data Supporting: Artificial Oyster Reefs Facilitate the Recovery of Lost Ecosystem Function in Declining Seagrass Habitat

PURPOSE: The contents of this dataset serve as supplementary material to an upcoming publication. The paper is from a multi-year project assessing the efficacy of artificial oyster reefs, deployed in bare patches of a fragmented eelgrass bed, to facilitate the recovery of lost ecosystem services within those bare patches. The dataset contains supplementary figures and tables to support the findings contained within the manuscript, R code used for data analysis and figure generation, source datafiles uploaded to R for statistical analyses and figure generation, and a data dictionary to facilitate understanding and comprehension of the source data files. This page will be updated with the complete citation for the article once it is officially published. DESCRIPTION: Seagrass populations often decline when environmental stress exceeds tolerance thresholds. In such instances, seagrass restoration can be successful if stressors are alleviated; however, many stressors cannot be addressed at local scale, leading to unsuccessful restoration initiatives. This study tested whether artificial oyster reefs, which are comparatively more resilient to many stressors, could restore lost…

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Fisheries and Oceans Canada

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2026-03-24