Grazing Crab (IMAGE)

Duke University

Grazing Crab

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Salt marshes at higher latitudes, including those in densely populated coastal regions of New England and Europe, are more susceptible to nutrient loading and overgrazing by herbivorous critters such as this crab than their counterparts in the tropics.

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Brian Silliman

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