@article{10902/35511,
year = {2024},
month = {11},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/35511},
abstract = {Ocean ecosystems have been subjected to anthropogenic influences for centuries, but the scale of past ecosystem changes is often unknown. For centuries, the European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis), an ecosystem engineer providing biogenic reef habitats, was a culturally and economically significant source of food and trade. These reef habitats are now functionally extinct, and almost no memory of where or at what scales this ecosystem once existed, or its past form, remains. The described datasets present qualitative and quantitative extracts from written records published between 1524 and 2022. These show: (1) locations of past flat oyster fisheries and/or oyster reef habitat described across its biogeographical range, with associated levels of confidence; (2) reported extent of past oyster reef habitats, and; (3) species associated with these habitats. These datasets will be of use to inform accelerating flat oyster restoration activities, to establish reference models for anchoring adaptive management of restoration action, and in contributing to global efforts to recover records on the hidden history of anthropogenic-driven ocean ecosystem degradation.},
organization = {RHT received funding from the Convex Seascape Survey, the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 856488 – ERC Synergy project “SEACHANGE: Quantifying the impact of major cultural transitions on marine ecosystem functioning and biodiversity”), and the Environment Agency. PzE and HM were supported by the Flotilla Foundation. RHT, PzE and FdC were part supported by the COST Action MAF-WORLD CA20102, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), www.cost.eu. FdC and EG acknowledge the support of RemediOS Project, developed with the collaboration of the Biodiversity Foundation (Spanish Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge), through the Pleamar Program, co-financed by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF). BoP was supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark-project, “Living on the Edge – Risk, Resources, Resilience and Relocations in the Western Limfjord, c. 1750–1900”. SP received funding from a pluri-annual agreement between two French National Institutes, Ifremer and OFB, French Office for Biodiversity (Grant agreement No OFB.22.0034, “REEFOREST: REstoring the European Flat Oyster Reefs & their Ecosystem Services on the french coasT”). BP and CP work within the projects RESTORE (FKZ 3516892001, FKZ 3519892016, FKZ 3520892013) and PROCEED (FKZ 3517685013) funded by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) with funds from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV). TCC has been funded by UKRI, CEFAS and Natural England. CS received funding from the Irish Research Council (IRC) under their COALESCE call for the “Food Smart Dublin project” (grant no. COALESCE/2019/97). DG was supported by the PO-FEAMP (Programma Operativo - Fondo Europeo per gli Affari Marittimi e la Pesca) 2014–2020 project ECOGESTOCK “Approccio ECOsistemico per la tutela e la GEStione delle risorse biologiche e STOCK ittici nelle acque interne”, and thanks Mauro Doneddu and Egidio Trainito for their shared experience. The works developed by JAJ and BO were funded by the Program LIFE-Climate Change Adaptation (LIFE18 CCA/ES/001160): Adaptation to climate change through management and restoration of European estuarine ecosystems (LIFE ADAPTA BLUES). We thank members of the NORA historical ecology working group and the following collaborators for data and discussion during working group meetings and conferences: Alison Debney, Celine Gamble, Liam Darcy, Iain Dummet, Fay Sandford, Zoe Laurence, Christopher Ranger, Alexei Kraidovskiy, Andrea Fischel, Anamarija Frankic, Cristina Joanaz de Melo, Stein Mortensen, Paula Chainho, Marina Albentosa, Lucas Bosseboeuf, Cass Bromley, José Costa, Sara Cabral, Juana Cano, Molly Cornwell, Thomas Day, Sara Hornborg, Camilla Bertolini, Gianni Brundu, Jose M. Fariñas-Franco, Hein Sas, Lucia de Nicolò, Luigi Divari, Francis Kerckhof; Thomas Kerkhove, M. Jose Rosique, Uxia Tenreiro, Filip Volckaert, Robert Whiteley. The NORA Secretariat was funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz, BfN) through the Federal Program for Biodiversity and the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research within the project PROCEED (FKZ 3517685013).},
publisher = {Springer},
publisher = {Scientific Data, 2024, 11, 1198},
title = {Historical dataset details the distribution, extent and form of lost Ostrea edulis reef ecosystems},
author = {Thurstan, Ruth H. and McCormick, Hannah and Preston, Joanne and Ashton, Elizabeth C. and Bennema, Floris P. and Bratoš Cetinic, Anna and Brown, Janet H. and Cameron, Tom C. and da Costa, Fiz and Donnan, David W. and Ewers, Christine and Fortibuoni, Tomaso and Galimany, Eve and Giovanardi, Otello and Grancher, Romain and Grech, Daniele and Hayden-Hughes, Maria and Juanes de la Peña, José A. and Ondiviela Eizaguirre, Bárbara},
}