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Climate Change, Precipitation and Impacts on an Estuarine Refuge from Disease

BACKGROUND: Oysters play important roles in estuarine ecosystems but have suffered recently due to overfishing, pollution, and habitat loss. A tradeoff between growth rate and disease prevalence as a function of salinity makes the estuarine salinity transition of special concern for oyster survival...

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Autores principales: Levinton, Jeffrey, Doall, Michael, Ralston, David, Starke, Adam, Allam, Bassem
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3084236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21552552
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018849