Ancient clam gardens increased shellfish production: adaptive strategies from the past can inform food security today.
Maintaining food production while sustaining productive ecosystems is among the central challenges of our time, yet, it has been for millennia. Ancient clam gardens, intertidal rock-walled terraces constructed by humans during the late Holocene, are thought to have improved the growing conditions fo...
Main Authors: | Amy S Groesbeck, Kirsten Rowell, Dana Lepofsky, Anne K Salomon |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3949788?pdf=render |
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