The return of sea otters to their former habitat in a Central California estuary has reduced erosion of the region’s creekbanks and marsh edges by up to 90 percent, a new study has found. These carnivorous, semiaquatic mammals have been able to temper the rate of erosion due to their hunger for plant-eating marsh crabs,…
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
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The recovery of the southern sea otter population contributed to the expansion of the California kelp forests that are vulnerable to environmental stressors. Click to read more.