Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Big Sur Coastline
Monterey Co., CA – March 9, 2002

Dense mussels are limited to the relatively few horizontal mid-zone platforms at
Big Creek, possibly where oystercatchers are effective at removing Lottia gigantea.

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Image by D.J. Eernisse © 2002