Fig. 2: Ecosystem service logic models for two different types of oyster restoration projects. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 2: Ecosystem service logic models for two different types of oyster restoration projects.

From: Advancing consistent socio-economic monitoring of coastal ecosystem restoration through collaborative metric development

Fig. 2

a a cultch plant, where oyster shells are placed subtidally to create a two-dimensional structure on which oysters grow until they are harvested using intensive methods such as dredging, and (b) a living shoreline, where three-dimensional structures are placed in the intertidal zone to allow oyster colonization and long-term growth without harvest.

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