When sea otters were reintroduced along the coastlines of islands in Southern California and British Columbia, researchers ...

Sea otters help kelp forests recover by controlling sea urchins, but their impact varies. In British Columbia, recovery was ...

A study last year strengthened the link between recovering sea otter populations and the long-term health of kelp forests – ...

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Otters are known to be playful, but it's not all fun and games. There is scientific evidence that sliding is more than just ...

In short: otters eat urchins, so kelp thrives. But the slower return off California was something of a mystery. To understand what was going on in the ecosystem, Langendorf developed a model that ...

If you are planning on fishing or boating on Kentucky waterways this spring as temperatures warm up, you are likely to ...

British Columbia was a classic example of the domino effect, which ecologists call a trophic cascade, that comes with reintroducing a keystone species: otters eat urchins, so kelp can regrow.

In Alaska, a biologist and her family learn how quickly these iconic predators can change the menu — and bend the rules.

In the neighboring Tomales Bay, the European green crab alone has caused a clam harvesting decline of up to 40%. On the East ...