Rocky shore work in Ecosphere
Leslie Lab members published results from a multi year study at 18 rocky shore sites from Maine to New York state in Ecosphere this week.
Mussels could be the perfect ‘sentinel’ species to signal the health of coastal ecosystems. But a new study of blue mussels in estuary ecosystems along 600 kilometers of coastline in the Northeast uncovered three key mysteries that will have to be solved first.