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Brian Silliman: “The sea otters are stabilizing them for free in exchange for an all-you-can-eat crab feast.”

The return of sea otters, a top predator, to a California estuary is helping slow erosion and restore the estuary’s degraded geology.

Otters prey on crabs, giving shoreline plants a chance to spread their roots, In the several decades since sea otters began to recolonize their former habitat in Elkhorn Slough, a salt marsh-dominated coastal estuary in central California, remarkable changes have occurred in the landscape. Ero

Decades after sea otters returned to Elkhorn Slough, central California, significant landscape changes transpired.

Decades after sea otters returned to Elkhorn Slough, central California, significant landscape changes transpired.

Deadline: 30-Nov-22 The Lenfest Ocean Program requests you submit the proposals for Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean. The Lenfest Ocean

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Human activities such as marsh draining for agriculture and logging are increasingly eating away at saltwater and freshwater wetlands that cover only 1%

Human activities such as marsh draining for agriculture and logging are increasingly eating away at saltwater and freshwater wetlands that cover only 1% of Earth’s surface but store more than 20% of all the climate-warming carbon dioxide absorbed by ecosystems worldwide. A new study published May 5 in Science by a team of Dutch, American and German scientists shows that it’s not too late to reverse the losses.

Human activities like marsh logging and draining for agriculture are progressively depleting freshwater and saltwater wetlands that cover just 1% of the surface of the Earth but store over 20% of all the climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) absorbed by ecosystems globally.