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It was the appearance of sea urchins from their hiding spots, not an increase in the urchin population, which caused a spectacular outbreak of kelp-eating sea urchins along California’s Central Coast in 2014 that resulted in a large decline in the region’s kelp forests.
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California’s underwater kelp forests are in trouble. A combination of climate change and hungry purple sea urchins have decimated these vital forests. But the Monterey Peninsula has a kelp forest guardian sea otters. New research out of the University of California, Santa Cruz is highlighting their role.
Josh Smith has been researching how sea otters are defending Monterey Bay’s kelp forest since 2015. He co-authored a paper that was published March 8 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Josh Smith, a Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Cruz, stands near a beach on Cannery Row in Monterey. The tops of kelp swirl in the calm current of the blue-green water. Just a decade ago, this area looked vastly different.
In the Pacific, Global Warming Disrupted The Ecological Dance of Urchins, Sea Stars And Kelp Otters Help Restore Balance insideclimatenews.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from insideclimatenews.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.