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How a thumb-sized climate migrant with a giant crab claw is disrupting the Northeast’s Great Marsh ecosystem

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The Great Marsh is on the Gulf of Maine , the piece of the Atlantic that extends approximately from Cape Cod , Massachusetts , to Nova Scotia , Canada .

Warming waters allow fiddler crabs to complete their life cycle, and currents carry the next generation farther north.

Fiddler crabs don’t eat the grass, but when they dig, they damage Spartina ’s roots.

Plants in southern areas have adapted to this damage and now benefit from it.

Climate migrants are not considered invasive species, but they can change ecosystems.

Mangroves replace marshes in the southern U.S. and store more carbon.

Climate migrants can also benefit fisheries, says David Samuel Johnson , Virginia Institute of Marine Science .

Johnson : While ecosystems will adapt as climate migrants arrive, they will likely never be the same.

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