Friday, September 11, 2020

Otters vanished and everything else crumbled

 

Photo: Ron Niebrugge/Alamy.  In the Aleutians' delicate seascape, otters hold the entire ecosystem together. As they disappeared, the rest of the food web started to crumble — a process that's been accelerated and compounded by climate change, Dr. Estes and his colleagues report in the journal Science.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/science/otters-sea-urchins-alaska.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=curfbclid=IwAR0A4wvCTPjV7Mw900R0bsBU8BpU5LVEId6M9hUDcseEjEON70PVK_epQB4

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