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…