Archives for June, 2014:
There is much to learn about the interaction of the meiofauna with horseshoe crab eggs. It would stand to reason that the notoriously nutritious horseshoe crab egg would be capitalized on by the creatures living under the sand. Meiofauna drawing © Den Store Danske
Entrenching shovels are great for counting horseshoe crab egg clusters. They should also be in every zombie hunter’s toolkit.
Environmental stochasticity is “unpredictable spatiotemporal fluctuation in environmental conditions”. I think I experienced such a thing when I was caught in a hail storm on the Delaware Bay last week.