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Insights sea urchin mass mortality suggest a worldwide Diadematid pandemic
- reify 11mo agoThe 2022 Diadema antillarum die-off event: Comparisons with the 1983-1984 mass mortality. 2021). Disease-driven mass mortality is well known for diadematid sea urchins (Bak et al. 1984;Lessios 1988; Hylkema et al. 2023; ... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366893742_The_2022_Diadema_antillarum_die-off_event_Comparisons_with_the_1983-1984_mass_mortality https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366893742_The_2022_... to date, unknown cause. though I am sure there are a lot among us who blame all the chemical shit we humans dump in the seas