Several crab species were eliminated from the rocky shores, mangrove fringes, and Batis marsh communities for several months. A soluble component of oil, or possibly an organic cleaning solvent, leaching from this debris, was probably responsible for a mass mortality of subtidal echinoderms on the rocky platform. ![]() Floating seagrass served as a natural sorbent for oil and stranded in the intertidal zone. ![]() ![]() ![]() This study reports biological effects of the July 1975 oil spill in the Florida Keys for a one-year period.
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