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November 28, 2006
COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) — An army of tiny crustaceans in the tidal waters of Coos Bay is slowly chomping away at shorelines, exacerbating shoreline erosion and threatening marshes needed for salmon recovery.
An Oregon Institute of Marine Biology graduate student, Tim Davidson, hopes his study of the isopod Sphaeroma quoianum, the marine equivalent of the wood louse, will help coastal areas combat the nibblers before they bore too many trenches.
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