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Up for crabs: making a home for red-clawed crustaceans in Taiwan

Chia-Hsuan Hsu’s conservation efforts combine social science and ecological research.
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  1. Flynn Murphy

    1. Flynn Murphy is a journalist based in China.

Hsu Chia-Hsuan and two colleagues wear head torches at night while taking calliper measurements of red claw crabs in containers

Chia-Hsuan Hsu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate Institute of Environmental Education, National Taiwan Normal University. Credit: Ashley Pon for Nature

This picture was taken at night in the coastal community of Dakenggu in Yilan County, which is just southeast of Taipei in Taiwan. I’m on the left, working with two other researchers to measure the body size of a red-clawed crab (Chiromantes haematocheir).

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Nature 603, 962 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00810-3

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