Comments on: Meet the Species “In the Grass”

By: Operation Noah’s Ark «

Operation Noah’s Ark « — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:15:34 +0000

[...] salt marshes. The fiddler crab helps maintain the marsh with its burrows, which bring oxygen to cordgrass roots. In that grass, juvenile mullet find shelter, as do blue crabs and juvenile pinfish. The [...]

By: Eating contest: grasshoppers vs. snails «

Eating contest: grasshoppers vs. snails « — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:30:19 +0000

[...] sea-based and land-based critters. At low tide, insects and rodents move in, whereas at high tide, snails, fish, and crabs dominate. The 2 most common plant grazers at our sites illustrate this dichotomy [...]

By: What were we doing before Deepwater Horizon? «

What were we doing before Deepwater Horizon? « — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:56:26 +0000

[...] of the marsh animals that we have been studying for the last year (in the absence of oil) is the marsh periwinkle, Littoraria irrorata. This snail is very abundant in many marshes and is particularly visible at [...]

By: The unsung heroes of the muck «

The unsung heroes of the muck « — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:00:17 +0000

[...] need to try to get Disney to make a movie based in a salt marsh or oyster reef, where mud crabs and periwinkle snails sing and hide from predatory blue crabs (who, like those sharks in Finding Nemo, might be [...]

By: Nuts and Bolts «

Nuts and Bolts « — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:14:21 +0000

[...] once you see our study reefs (patchy, small and next to marsh), if you are a local, you must be thinking that we’re crazy for sampling these puny little things [...]

By: How long will oil effects last? «

How long will oil effects last? « — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:51:41 +0000

[...] (Meet the species of a Forgotten Coast salt marsh) [...]

By: What we are doing “In the Grass” «

What we are doing “In the Grass” « — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:31:12 +0000

[...] similar to having a diversified stock portfolio: by having a greater variety of species or ‘genotypes,’ aka more diversity, you increase the chances that one of them will grow really well, [...]