Sentences with phrase «occupies estuarine»
Lead author Rich Brill, a fishery biologist with NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service and adjunct faculty at VIMS, says «The notion that blue crabs are relatively intolerant of oxygen - poor waters was counterintuitive, because this species often occupies estuarine environments that can become hypoxic even in the absence of human activities.»
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«Our results are consistent with the oxygen levels shown to influence blue crab behaviors in both field and laboratory settings,» says Brill, and «support the idea that blue crabs are well adapted to the hypoxic conditions occurring in the estuarine environments they occupy.»