What started as a study to better understand how lobsters prey on sea urchins instead discovered sharks also predate on the pest. Lobsters have long been known as a key predator of sea urchins.
Oct. 11, 2024 — New study documents a severe coral bleaching event occurring in a deep coral reef that resulted in high rates of coral mortality. Unlike many bleaching events, this was driven by ...
Yet dead reefs are at greater risk of damage by grazers, including booming populations of urchins. Experiments conducted on reefs off Panama’s Caribbean coast suggested that mats of a species of ...