Stephanie Yin, from Mark Bertness's lab (http://bertnesslab.com/) at Brown University, tells the story of how marshes in New England have died back as populations of the crab Sesarma have grown.
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The hand-drawn animations were photographed at the Brown University Science Center (http://brown.edu/academics/science-center/). Music by Oyster Bay (http://oysterboy.bandcamp.com/).
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Five Planes minutus were beached on a floating object on the Belgian coast on 2001-09-15 Carapax width of males: 20 and 23 mm Carapax width of females: 19, 21 en 24 mm
Attribution: Maristella D'Addario (University of Rome).A small crab, Planes minutus (Columbus crab), living on an individual of Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle). This crab is known to prey upon other sea turtles epibionts.Highly Commended in the BMC Ecology Image Competition 2012:BMC Ecology 2013, 13:6 doi:10.1186/1472-6785-13-6www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/13/6