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According to the article, the purple sea urchins are starving. Maybe this will balance out eventually, as other predator/prey cycles in nature?
by psychiatrist24 6y ago
According to the article, the purple sea urchins are starving. Maybe this will balance out eventually, as other predator/prey cycles in nature?
- tomrod 6y agoUnclear. Ecosystem collapse is hard to predict.
- HNfriend234 6y agoYes they're starving but without a natural predator to them then they will just rebound if kelp grows back. The article did mention that the starfish predator of the urchin died from a mystery disease. I wonder if that starfish was reintroduced into the area if it would be able to survive again or simply die from the disease again. I think the key to fixing this issue is to figure out the reason the starfish died of the disease. Then it might be possible to mitigate for that.
- psychiatrist24 6y agoOr wait for a mysterious disease to kill off the urchins. Or maybe some starfish develop immunity to the disease.