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RashaKamel"When sea otters were reintroduced along the coastlines of islands in Southern California and British Columbia, researchers saw kelp forests return to areas that were destroyed by sea urchins. But how slow or fast they grew back depended on the location—and until now, scientists didn't understand why". <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/seaurchins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seaurchins</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/otters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#otters</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/kelp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kelp</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#forests</a> <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-sea-otters-kelp-forests-recover.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-03-sea-otters-kelp-forests-recover.html</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Sea urchins: A surprising delicacy for sharks <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-10-sea-urchins-delicacy-sharks.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-10-sea-urchins-delicacy-sharks.html</a> paper: <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1418506/full" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1418506/full</a>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Lobsters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lobsters</a> are widely accepted as the key predator of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SeaUrchins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeaUrchins</a>, and this information has informed management strategies to control exploding <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SeaUrchin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeaUrchin</a> numbers that threaten temperate <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/reefs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reefs</a>... In a new study, a camera was set up in a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/lobster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lobster</a> den and sea urchins were strategically placed in it. Surprisingly, the majority of the sea urchins were eaten—not by lobsters—but by <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sharks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sharks</a>."

Longreads"The team is raising long-spined sea urchins, and partners are releasing them into struggling reefs in Florida and beyond with the goal of developing methods that can be applied at a large scale." —Lisa S. Gardiner for <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/@hakaimagazine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@hakaimagazine</a><a href="https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-very-hungry-urchins/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-very-hungry-urchins/</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Longreads</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/EditorsPicks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EditorsPicks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SeaUrchins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeaUrchins</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Preservation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DiademaAntillarum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiademaAntillarum</a>

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