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The passage directly reports 480 habitat replicates across three estuaries, 16 artificial geometries, and half caged to prevent predation. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: The natural architecture of oyster reefs maximizes recruit survival · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:a05fa62a8f5489d9ebc35524f0cb528bc29ba6f1e0f3f31e6695afbde6e26feb

We engineered 16 artificial larval settlement habitats that encapsulate the fractal dimension and height range of oyster reefs; we then deployed 480 replicates of habitat units across three different estuaries, half of which were caged to prevent oyster predation following larval settlement.