The tall grasses and vegetation have been dying, along with the ribbed mussels and fiddler crabs that help hold the marshes together.
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Fiddler crabs are called " semi-terrestrial " since they make burrows in the muddy substrate, to which they retreat during high tides.
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"It turns out, with their fiddler crabs _ not the same species _ they can't seem to simulate the tidal patterns ."
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I'm having a hard time coming up with real-world creatures like that ( although the fiddler crab and adult flatfish are close ).
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Much useful research was accomplished in these years in fields as diverse as archeology, the mating of butterflies and fiddler crabs, ornithology, and parasitology.
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Some filter organic material ( microbes, algae, fungi etc ) from sand and mud, e . g . fiddler crabs and sand bubbler crabs.
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Yellow-crowned night herons, on the other hand, are " specialists " who feed almost exclusively on fiddler crabs in New York Harbor, he said.
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She would later go back to graduate studies, working towards her Ph . D ., where she studied fiddler crabs endemic to South Texas.
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Mussels, along with spartina grass and fiddler crabs, are essential to salt wetlands ecosystems; they filter the water and help bind the grass and peat.
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Invertebrates are represented by the endemic fiddler crab species " Uca subcylindrica ", which reside on dry soil, more than 20 meters from bay waters.
