Crab-dug tunnels boost methane-eating microbes in coastal wetlands, study finds

Wetlands are a significant producer of methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. Yet not all of it escapes ...
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Scientists quantify crabs’ impact on coastal methane cycling

New research has quantified how their burrows influence methane oxidation. Credit: Shutterstock Looking at a crab, it’s easy ...
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Positive effect of fiddler crabs on saltmarsh grass reverses in expanded range

In 2014, Dr. David Johnson was walking within a muddy salt marsh an hour north of Boston at the Plum Island Ecosystem (PIE) LTER when an Atlantic marsh fiddler crab, Minuca pugnax, scuttled across his ...
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Salt marsh resilience compromised by crabs along tidal creek edges

Coastal marshes are vulnerable to erosion caused by rising seas, pounding waves, and tidal flows. In Elkhorn Slough on the Central Coast of California, these vulnerabilities are made worse by ...