A devastating sea star plague triggered an unexpected ecological shift, creating a mussel boom that sea otters turned into a ...

On any piece of rocky shore one notices bands of different life. The intertidal is a transition zone between land and sea ...

Further inspection revealed the group collectively possessed 116 purple sea urchins—86 more than the legal limit.

Until now. Twice each day, low tide briefly exposes this astounding world — a narrow band of rocky shore known as the intertidal zone. It’s home to a unique species of fish that breathes air ...

Biologists value the intertidal zone as an easily observable model of ... giving his introductory patter in the classroom and heading down to the rocky coast for the payoff. First, the audience ...

At the intertidal zone, Cal State Monterey Bay Professor Alison Haupt asks her students about their future plans. She finds that this rocky landscape full of sea stars, anemones and abalones is a ...

In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the Monterey Peninsula in California, where this study was conducted. The orange ...

“And you can be my assistant,” I kindly informed her. We were exploring the intertidal zone — that extraordinary world between high and low tide — on a very special beach: the beach I grew ...

The orange and purple stars have a hungry appetite for mussels in the rocky intertidal. Without the voracious sea stars lurking around, mussel populations exploded, expanding in cover from around ...