Hungry Hungry Gastropods (IMAGE)

Duke University

Hungry Hungry Gastropods

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Plant-eating snails overwhelm both naturally occurring and artificially planted marsh plants as this ecosystem tries to regrow after drought and grazing. Controlling such feeding frenzies are essential to the success of ecological restoration efforts. 

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Brian Silliman, Duke University

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