TY - JOUR

T1 - Historical dataset details the distribution, extent and form of lost Ostrea edulis reef ecosystems

AU - Thurstan, Ruth H.

AU - McCormick, Hannah

AU - Preston, Joanne

AU - Ashton, Elizabeth C.

AU - Bennema, Floris P.

AU - Bratoš Cetinić, Ana

AU - Brown, Janet H.

AU - Cameron, Tom C.

AU - da Costa, Fiz

AU - Donnan, David W.

AU - Ewers, Christine

AU - Fortibuoni, Tomaso

AU - Galimany, Eve

AU - Giovanardi, Otello

AU - Grancher, Romain

AU - Grech, Daniele

AU - Hayden-Hughes, Maria

AU - Helmer, Luke

AU - Jensen, K. Thomas

AU - Juanes, José A.

AU - Latchford, Janie

AU - Moore, Alec B. M.

AU - Moutopoulos, Dimitrios K.

AU - Nielsen, Pernille

AU - von Nordheim, Henning

AU - Ondiviela, Bárbara

AU - Peter, Corina

AU - Pogoda, Bernadette

AU - Poulsen, Bo

AU - Pouvreau, Stéphane

AU - Scherer, Cordula

AU - Smaal, Aad C.

AU - Smyth, David

AU - Strand, Åsa

AU - Theodorou, John A.

AU - zu Ermgassen, Philine S. E.

PY - 2024/11/5

Y1 - 2024/11/5

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

U2 - 10.1038/s41597-024-04048-8

DO - 10.1038/s41597-024-04048-8

M3 - Article

VL - 11

JO - Scientific data

JF - Scientific data

SN - 2052-4463

IS - 1

ER -