Evidence of exceptional oyster-reef resilience to fluctuations in sea level.

Comparisons of salinity between scan periods indicated significant decreases in salinity across time steps in both decade‐old and young reefs, but only marginal significance (if α = 0.1) in the centennial reef (Tables 2 and S1 ). 3.2 Reef growth For the decade‐old reefs, average sea level between the two periods increased approximately 4 cm from −0.053 m NAVD88 (averaged through Spring 2010–Spring 2012) to −0.016 m NAVD88 (average through Spring 2012–Spring 2015) (Figure 5 a,b), with prolonged higher water during the warm seasons (April through September) of 2012 (0.004 m NAVD88) and 2014 (0.032 m NAVD88).

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