Blog Post Image: Guilty: Crabs are killing N.E. saltmarshes

What’s killing the coastal saltmarshes of Southern New England? Senior Sinead Crotty checks a cage that protects Sesarma crabs from predators. Excluding predators for a single growing season, the experiment showed, more than doubled Sesarma consumption of marsh grass, with damage above and below ground. Image credit: Photos from Bertness lab/Brown University

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