When Predators Vanish, so Does the Ecosystem: New York Times Article about the Bertness Lab’s work!
Here’s the paper we published: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12287/abstract
Press release at Brown: http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2014/04/sesarma
My drawing in the sidebar: http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2014/04/die
After a not very brief respite, I am back in the blogging world. This summer, I spent my days knee-deep in mud, stumping doggedly through the marsh for the sake of science. Here I am with a lovely pair of Sesarma Reticulatum crabs, which would probably have pried a good chunk of my nose off if I had let them get any closer to my face. Incidentally, these crabs also snip and ingest chunks of cordgrass at such a high rate in certain marshes that they are causing die-off! More on this later. Happy blogging!
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