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Researchers Reveal How Sea Otter Population Change Impacts the Climate
September 10, 2o20 in Science Daily, the authors believe that predator loss and climate change contribute to the reef destruction.The research was performed by Douglas Rasher, a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. He led the team alongside coauthors Jim Estes from UC Santa Cruz and Bob Steneck from the University of Maine.“We discovered that massive limestone reefs built by algae underpin the Aleutian Islands’ kelp forest ecosystem,” said Rasher.