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Researchers make astonishing discovery while studying sea otters in Monterey: 'One of the first pieces of good news we've gotten'
One of the most invasive species in the marine environment.” Researchers make astonishing discovery while studying sea otters ...
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Saving eelgrass, the most important plant you’ve likely never heard of
Acres of a willowy green plant called eelgrass. Eelgrass is the dominant species of seagrass in New England, but it's little-known and largely unsung. And no wonder — it's impossible to see from ...
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Hungry Sea Otters Are Taking a Bite Out of California’s Invasive Crab Problem, New Study Finds
They destroy eelgrass habitats, feast on juvenile salmon ... furry ally in the fight against European green crabs: sea otters. At the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve in ...
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Out-of-control invasive species meets its match: Cute and hungry otters
Native eelgrass beds were restored. The natural tidal exchange of water and marshes began to be restored. And the sea otters came back. From that small group they've begun a slow comeback.
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Green crabs have invaded habitats. Sea otters might be the solution.
Sea otters are rare in most ecosystems after they ... They have decimated swaths of eelgrass and soft-shell crabs. Each female can lay 185,000 eggs per year. Jeppesen was a graduate student ...