Sea Otter eating habits repair California estuary
Brian Silliman: “The sea otters are stabilizing them for free in exchange for an all-you-can-eat crab feast.”
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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.