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Pacific Oyster density has increased up to 32-fold across a decade in some California waters, and coincides with summer seawater temperature increases of 2-4°C

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Intra-decadal increase in globally-spread Magallana gigas in southern California estuaries

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Co-authors Ty Frantz (front) and Chelsea Bowers- Doerning (back) survey Pacific oyster density during June 2020 on a chain-link fence in San Diego Bay, CA, USA.

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Credit: D. Zacherl, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Pacific Oyster density has increased up to 32-fold across a decade in some California waters, and coincides with summer seawater temperature increases of 2-4°C

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0302935

Article Title: Intra-decadal increase in globally-spread Magallana gigas in southern California estuaries

Author Countries: USA

Funding: “Funding was provided by CSU Fullerton and via subcontracts with Merkel & Associates, Inc. and Port of San Diego to DCZ. Funders had no involvement in the study design or data collection process.” The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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