The diversity and composition of local communities depends strongly on the pool of species that have been able to colonize that community from elsewhere. Typically this is thought to depend on a ...

Estuaries and Coasts, Vol. 44, No. 5 (JULY 2021), pp. 1344-1362 (19 pages) Intertidal crabs display distinct morphological traits that allow differential interactions with biotic and abiotic features ...

Albeit very small, with a carapace width of only 3 cm, the Atlantic mangrove fiddler crab Leptuca thayeri can be a great help to scientists seeking to understand more about the effects of global ...

Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh, a salt marsh an hour north of Boston, and pulled a thumb-sized crab with an absurdly large claw out of a burrow. I was looking at a ...

The St. Johns River is a crabby kind of place, meaning that there are a number of crab species other than the popular and personal favorite, the blue crab, present in the river. Most of them are small ...