As if there weren’t enough reasons to hate 2020, the number of Marmorkrebs papers published was down from the last two years.
It’s impossible to tell if the dip in number of publications is the result of a global pandemic or just the regular up and down you see in these sorts of data.
Marmorkrebs did make international news again this year, mainly because a cloning crayfish invading a cemetery is a great story for Halloween. That was the first record of Marmorkrebs in Belgium, but another first record – on the island of Taiwan – made for fewer news stories but may have been more important in showing how Marmorkrebs are spreading globally.
On the legislative front, Marmorkrebs (and other crayfish) were banned in Japan, the American state of Michigan, and the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Several jurisdictions like North Carolina and Ontario are considering following suit.
Update, 4 January 2021: Have just found another paper with a 2020 release (Stein and colleagues, 2020), so the count shown in the graph is one too low.
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