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 California’s Elkhorn Slough, these vulnerabilities are made worse by superabundant crabs found at their highest densities along the estuary’s tidal creeks, according to a new study.
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