{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Hodin J"],"funding":["California Sea Grant","the Ocean Protection Council","The Nature Conservancy of California"],"pagination":["e0318879"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12407436"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["20(9)"],"pubmed_abstract":["The sunflower star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, was a top benthic predator throughout its former range from Alaska to northern Mexico, until its populations were devastated starting in 2013 by a disease known as seastar wasting. The subsequent absence of sunflower stars from northern California waters was coincident with a dramatic ecological phase shift from healthy bull kelp forests (Nereocystis luetkeana) to barrens formed by purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus), a prey of sunflower stars. Modeling suggests that restoration and resilience of kelp forests can be enhanced by the return of sunflower stars. Towards this end we run a conservation breeding program for sunflower stars in the Salish Sea of Washington, where sunflower stars have persisted in much reduced numbers. We "],"journal":["PloS one"],"pubmed_title":["Star Power: Early life stages of an endangered sea star are robust to current and near-future warming."],"pmcid":["PMC12407436"],"funding_grant_id":["TNC-CA","R/HCE-15"],"pubmed_authors":["Brito M","Hodin J","Anteau FP","Curliss F","Peng JS","Valdez VV","Ashcraft BF","Schwab CJ","Kalytiak-Davis AR","Weertman W"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Star Power: Early life stages of an endangered sea star are robust to current and near-future warming.","description":"The sunflower star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, was a top benthic predator throughout its former range from Alaska to northern Mexico, until its populations were devastated starting in 2013 by a disease known as seastar wasting. The subsequent absence of sunflower stars from northern California waters was coincident with a dramatic ecological phase shift from healthy bull kelp forests (Nereocystis luetkeana) to barrens formed by purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus), a prey of sunflower stars. Modeling suggests that restoration and resilience of kelp forests can be enhanced by the return of sunflower stars. Towards this end we run a conservation breeding program for sunflower stars in the Salish Sea of Washington, where sunflower stars have persisted in much reduced numbers. We ","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025","modification":"2026-05-29T21:37:20.762Z","creation":"2026-04-08T06:05:45.994Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12407436","cross_references":{"pubmed":["40901916"],"doi":["10.1371/journal.pone.0318879"]}}