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California's crashing kelp forest

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First the sea stars wasted to nothing. Then purple urchins took over, eating and eating until the bull kelp forests were gone. The red abalone starved. Their fishery closed. Red sea urchins starved. Their fishery collapsed. And the ocean kept warming. This ecological horror story movie took place between 2013-2017, with lasting impacts. This study chronicles the catastrophic shift in 2014 from a robust bull kelp forest to a barren of purple sea urchins.

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Unkown User, "California's crashing kelp forest", MachPrinciple, November 16, 2019, https://machprinciple.com/post/California-s-crashing-kelp-forest

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