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Key Sea Star Predator Wiped Out by Disease and Abnormally Warm Waters (3 of 5)

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Key Sea Star Predator Wiped Out by Disease and Abnormally Warm Waters (3 of 5)

image: Underwater photograph showing initial outbreak at Sackinaw Rock, BC, Canada. The two photos show a time series of 20 days at the same location in October 2012. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 30th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D. Harvell at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and colleagues was titled, "Disease epidemic and a marine heat wave are associated with the continental-scale collapse of a pivotal predator (Pycnopodia helianthoides)." view more 

Credit: [Credit: Neil McDaniel]


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