Happy New Year

Jan 04, 2016

Happy New YearSo it's back in the saddle after the Christmas vacation and New Year. Prior to Christmas I had an exciting visit to the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, and it was great to meet Cindy and Danny from Experiment whist I was across the pond.
So now its time to think about crabs, and marine scavengers again. Especially in light of all the exciting research I seen at AGU about salt marshes and marine sediments as a global reservoir for carbon dioxide. Gloopy mud really does seem to be essential in the regulating the global climate.

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Investigating how green crab extinction affects seabed ecosystems in Irish waters

The Queen's University of Belfast

Coastal ecosystems are sensitive to human-induced pressure from fisheries and pollution that lead to localized extinctions of specific organisms. These extinctions disproportionately affect larger, predatory animals (megafauna), with cascading effects upon ecosystem-scale carbon cycling pathways. This project will test how selective removal of larger predatory organisms alters ecosystem structure and function, changing energy flow and carbon cycling pathways in coastal sediments.