When sea stars fall, sea otters rise: Sea otters benefit from prey boom triggered by loss of ochre sea stars

ScienceDaily
Apr 30, 2025, 2:18 pm68 pts
In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the Monterey Peninsula in California, where this study was conducted. The orange and purple stars have a hungry appetite for mussels in the rocky intertidal. Without the voracious sea stars…

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