Description
About this project The European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) population is booming in Maine! With a lack of predators, this invasive species is destroying eelgrass beds and damaging fisheries across the state. More information on green crab population dynamics and movements are needed for researchers and scientists to develop effective mitigation efforts across the State of Maine. Help researchers, fishermen, scientists, and chefs build the Green Crab Project database! Add your green crab population and/or general presence data here. Contact the Community Lab, at CEHL@mdibl.org for detailed protocols. Choose which method you plan to use: Quadrats Traps Transects Please report: What was your sampling method What kind of trap you used (if you used a trap) How many crabs you have found with carapace size and designation as male, female, or female with eggs Any additional notes you might have
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,784 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Taylor A, Farrell A, Dorn N, Disney J, Bailey C, Garretson A (2025). Green Crab Studies. Version 1.3. The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.us/resource?r=cehl-green-crab&v=1.3
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 630f5cde-5706-42f5-8d26-a1ad0028478e. The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation
Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Community Manager
- Originator
- Former Community Environmental Health Laboratory Manager
- 159 Old Bar Harbor Rd
- Originator
- AmeriCorps Environmental Steward
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Associate Professor of Environmental Health
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4869-9802
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Systems Developer
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- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Community Environmental Health Laboratory Manager
- Point Of Contact
- Community Environmental Health Laboratory
Geographic Coverage
Bar Harbor, Maine
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [44.143, -68.678], North East [44.461, -68.133] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2014-05-06 / 2022-07-14 |
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Sampling Methods
Add your green crab population and/or general presence data here. Contact the Community Lab, at CEHL@mdibl.org for detailed protocols. Choose which method you plan to use: Quadrats Traps Transects Please report: What was your sampling method What kind of trap you used (if you used a trap) How many crabs you have found with carapace size and designation as male, female, or female with eggs Any additional notes you might have
| Study Extent | About this project The European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) population is booming in Maine! With a lack of predators, this invasive species is destroying eelgrass beds and damaging fisheries across the state. More information on green crab population dynamics and movements are needed for researchers and scientists to develop effective mitigation efforts across the State of Maine. Help researchers, fishermen, scientists, and chefs build the Green Crab Project database! |
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Method step description:
- Add your green crab population and/or general presence data here. Contact the Community Lab, at CEHL@mdibl.org for detailed protocols. Choose which method you plan to use: Quadrats Traps Transects Please report: What was your sampling method What kind of trap you used (if you used a trap) How many crabs you have found with carapace size and designation as male, female, or female with eggs Any additional notes you might have
Additional Metadata
| Acknowledgements | Data curation and management of Anecdata data on GBIF was supported by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant numbers P20GM103423 and P20GM104318. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 630f5cde-5706-42f5-8d26-a1ad0028478e |
| https://ipt.gbif.us/resource?r=cehl-green-crab |