Rise of Aggressive Reef Predator May Impede Sea Urchin Recovery, Study Finds
Monday, May 15, 2017 - 16:41
in Biology & Nature
A new study suggests that an aggressive reef competitor--the Threespot Damselfish--may have impeded the recovery of Caribbean long-spined sea urchin populations after a mysterious disease outbreak caused a massive die-off of these animals over three decades ago.