Sentences with phrase «sea star populations»

Beginning in 2013, a mysterious disease crippled sea star populations up and down the U.S. west coast.

C. Melissa Miner and colleagues analyzed nearly two decades of data to better understand the impact of the sea star wasting disease on sea star populations along the Pacific coast of North America.

Menge doesn't think overabundance played a role in the current outbreak among 13 sea star populations that he follows on the coast of Oregon.

Not exact matches

By eating mussels on the low shores in Oregon, sea stars keep those populations in check so the bivalves don't explode in numbers, at the expense of other organisms.

Today, California sheephead, spiny lobsters, and sunflower stars are the primary consumers of sea urchins that help keep their populations in check.

As they gazed out over the great island that had lost its forests two thousand years ago, and looked out over the sea whose wild tuna fish populations have been diminished by 96 %, and enjoyed the fresh air that now contained 385 ppm of CO2, and maybe more, and at night looked at the stars through a thinned ozone layer they must wonder what went wrong.