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331:. The crabs eat marsh grass not only from above but underground in tunnels they construct. The research demonstrates the possible cumulative ecological impact of popular human activities such as recreational fishing.
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Angelini (2012). "A trophic cascade triggers collapse of a salt marsh ecosystem with intensive recreational fishing".
327:. Scientists from Brown and Princeton universities methodically ruled out other causes for the degradation of the salt marshes. The explosion in the population of sesarma crabs has provided additional food to
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645:"Cape salt marsh decline linked to native crab"
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477:"Life in the marsh debris"
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289:recreational fishermen
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352:Sesarma reticulatum
269:Sesarma reticulatum
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189:Sesarma reticulatum
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243:Description
108:Pleocyemata
905:Grapsoidea
899:Categories
335:References
297:blue crabs
198:marsh crab
196:or simply
128:Sesarmidae
104:Suborder:
78:Arthropoda
388:sp. (nr.
313:cordgrass
293:predators
273:estuaries
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118:Brachyura
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58:Eukaryota
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295:such as
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325:erosion
279:Ecology
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