Crabs, Insects and Spiders Vulnerable to Oil Spill, but also Resilient (IMAGE)

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Crabs, Insects and Spiders Vulnerable to Oil Spill, but also Resilient

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Typical conditions at oiled sites. At the leading edge of the marsh, there was C) a zone up to 5 m wide of bare mud where all vegetation had died. Behind this was B) a zone of wrack up to 2 m wide consisting of heavily-oiled plant debris. Behind this was A) an extensive zone of live and apparently healthy Spartina alterniflora. Sampling at both oiled and control sites was done at least 2 m inside the live Spartina zone.

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McCall BD, Pennings SC (2012) Disturbance and Recovery of Salt Marsh Arthropod Communities Following BP <I>Deepwater Horizon </I>Oil Spill. <I>PLoS ONE </I>7(3): e32735. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032735

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