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Slow Down and Reach Out (and We’ll Be There): A Response to “Shellfish as Living Infrastructure” by Kate Orff

Raymond E. Grizzle and Loren D. Coen
Ecological Restoration, September 2013, 31 (3) 325-329; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.31.3.325
Raymond E. Grizzle
University of New Hampshire, Jackson Estuarine Laboratory, Durham, NH 03824, .
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Department of Biological Sciences, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University, Ft. Pierce, FL 34946.
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