Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

They’re voracious predators whose consumption of sea urchins helps prevent the overgrazing of kelp forests, maintaining coastal ecosystems. The sea star wasting disease outbreak is considered one of ...

Take the sunflower sea star: When it eats its preferred meal ... the urchins took over and “kind of clear cut the beautiful, healthy kelp forest” that helped so many other species thrive ...

Marine heat waves that seemed extreme just a decade ago will become commonplace by the end of this century in waters favored ...

describe characteristics of a kelp forest ecosystem. explain the interactions between habitats and species. give examples of producers, consumers and scavengers in a kelp forest. draw and label ...

The sunflower sea star in particular, is among the worst hit ... their population decline is associated with an increase in urchin numbers, and a 30% decline in kelp forests. “Sea urchins are like ...

the kelp forests off the coast of northern California. Warming sea water has triggered an explosion in the population of purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) which devour kelp at an ...

96% of the region’s kelp forests vanished in the decade following the sea star collapse. “It's kind of like the … ‘you don't know what you have until it's gone’ adage,” said Norah Eddy ...