Using only fins, divers wild-harvest abalone off eastern Australia’s coast. The marine snail, known for its beautiful ...

Sea otters are keystone species in kelp forests. Kelp forests rely on the top-down pressure sea otters exert via predation on sea urchins. By controlling the sea urchin population, they help manage ...

Eventually, the team hopes for a return of these stars to Monterey Bay, where they can help maintain kelp forests, which are ...

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“It’s really been the commercial sea urchin diving community that has noticed so much kelp decline out of the Channel Islands.” Selkoe said that there used to be a vibrant kelp forest on the ...

The new pilot project will sell the problematic purples to restaurants or turn them into agricultural products.

"There is an urgent need globally for scalable solutions to combat sea urchin deserts and restore these vital ecosystems. It will be a total gamechanger in the ocean restoration space if we manage to ...

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The purple sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus has been used for over 150 years as a model organism in developmental biology. Using this model species, scientists have been able to describe, in ...

Sea Otters Maintain Remnants of Healthy Kelp Forest Amid Sea Urchin Barrens Mar. 8, 2021 — Sea otters maintain the balance of kelp forest ecosystems by controlling populations of sea urchins ...