Marsh crabs build creeks!
Some very cool new research has come out of the Pennings Lab at the University of Houston last month. Huy Vu et al reports, in Ecology, that purple marsh crabs…
Reblog: Crab Wars
Dr Sarah Oktay of our UMass Boston Field Station on Nantucket and I wrote an article for Yesterday's Island, a Nantucket newspaper, that was published last week. Enjoy!
How important are cross ecosystem interactions in a marsh?
Because of their location on the border of terrestrial and marine ecosystems, marshes act as sponges for runoff, are a factory that churns out millions of juvenile fish, crabs and…
Purple Marsh Crab Grazing…during the day…at high tide!
Well I have never seen this before... This video features the purple marsh crab, Sesarma reticulatum. This crab is a well known marsh herbivore (actually omnivore!) that feeds on aboveground…
Workin on my night marsh
Look who I found eating some grass out at Folgers Marsh outside UMass Boston's Field Station on Nantucket! Thats right, your friendly neighborhood purple marsh crab. Some…