Beautiful piece on the ecology of scallop population dynamics. The connection between the 2007 breach and improved eelgrass habitat is fascinating, especially since the mechanism still isn't fully understood. One overlooked angle here is how those byssal thread attachements to eelgrass create a sort of refuge network, the spatial patterning of eelgrass meadows probably matters as much as total coverage when it comes to survivorship thru that vulnerable juvenile stage.