When sea otters were reintroduced along the coastlines of islands in Southern California and British Columbia, researchers saw kelp forests return to areas that were destroyed by sea urchins.

Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

Sea otters are keystone species in kelp forests. Kelp forests rely on the top-down pressure sea otters exert via predation on ...

Marine heat waves that seemed extreme just a decade ago will become commonplace by the end of this century in waters favored ...

Every day California sea otters spend 10 to 12 hours hunting ... that grows in profusion off the state’s central coast, and kelp forests, in turn, are home to rockfish, perch and many other ...

Representative Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24) announced the reintroduction of the California Clean Coast Act. The California Clean ...

helping to restore the giant kelp forests they rely on by removing their top predators, the sea urchins. When studying sea otters along the coastlines of islands in Southern California and British ...

Sea otters are an important part of a healthy marine habitat, and help restore wetlands and protect kelp forests ... to its historic habitat along the California coast. To further that goal ...

But while kelp grew back off both coasts, forests in British Columbia ... and other species in California, which slowed down the influence sea otters had on the entire system.

On California’s North Coast, where other urchin nemeses — like otters, spiny lobsters and sheephead — are lacking, 96% of the region’s kelp forests vanished in the decade following the sea ...