Starfish

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Synopsis: 4.4. animals: Invertebrate: Starfish:

down by a hungry army of sea urchins. In this film marine ecologist Professor James A Estes, cameraman Doug Allan, ecological economist Pavan Sukhdev,

Dr M Sanjayan, reveal how sea otters eat sea urchins which would otherwise devour the kelp and disrupt the rich web of life that relies on it.

</p><p>Starfish wasting syndrome is understood a poorly disease that starts out as a small lesion on the animal's body

Starfish don't have scales don't have tails and can't swim so they are therefore not fish.

Instead the rough-skinned multi-legged seafloor dweller is an echinoderm related to sea urchins and sea cucumbers.

Sea turtles depending on the species may eat seagrasses algae sponges sea squirts squid shrimp crabs jellyfish cuttlefish or sea cucumbers.

heaps of neon-pink sea stars glow-in-the-dark jellies floating spookily by yellow sea spiders breathing through holes in their bodies amphipods toothfish and yes hundreds of swirling seals.

Masses of dead barnacles and starfish proved the land had just been underwater. Plafker concluded the pattern could only have been caused by a hidden fault releasing tension about 9 miles (15 km) below the surface.

The long-spined sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii, for example, has moved from the warming seas off mainland Australia

Sure, the sea urchin is probably shifting due to warming waters. As it shifts, it's been devastating local ecosystems.

Along with the sea fan are three new species of worm eels three colorful gobies three nudibanchs two snappers two now-extinct species of sand dollars corals barnacles and two

Sea otters protect kelp forests by eating sea urchins. These are what ecologists call keystone species: critters that control an ecosystem and have a disproportionate impact on other species. And in the forests of New england

Some of otters'favorites are abalone clams crabs mussels shrimp and sea urchins. Few predators can crack the globe-shaped spiny urchins

Without sea otters the undersea sea urchins they prey on would devour the kelp forests resulting in dense areas called sea urchin barrens that have lower biodiversity due to the loss of kelp that provide 3-dimensional habitat

since 1970 including studies of corals seaweeds grazing sea urchins and fish. The results show that the Caribbean corals have declined by more than 50%since the 1970s.

and sea urchin--the area's two main grazers--has in fact been the key driver of coral decline in the region.

An unidentified disease led to a mass mortality of the sea urchin in 1983 and extreme fishing throughout the 20th century has brought the parrotfish population to the brink of extinction in some regions.

and grazing sea urchins and set aside one-third of its coastal waters as marine reserves says Ayana Johnson of the Waitt Institute's Blue Halo Initiative which is collaborating with Barbuda in the development of its new management plan.

A drain from a central property revealed a richer variety of foods as well as imports from outside Italy such as shellfish sea urchin

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