Assertion: horseshoe crab | /r/HasProperty | rare
Facets:
value: in maine
type: LOCATION
value: extremely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: One way of envisioning the ecological roles (as suggested to me by Jane Brockmann) is to project how the functioning of ecosystems would differ if horseshoe crabs were absent or extremely rare.
text: The horseshoe crab is also one of those rare animals that have been around longer than the dinosaurs.
text: Horseshoe crabs are rare in Maine because the Atlantic is so cold and the rocky coastline provides few of the shallow, sandy estuaries in which they prefer to spawn, Schaller said.