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  • Climate Change Biology
  • Invertebrate Zoology

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  • Climate change significantly affects species distributions and phenology, but its impact on species interactions remains less understood.
  • Ectothermic predator-prey dynamics are particularly sensitive to temperature due to metabolic and behavioral dependencies.

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  • To investigate the influence of temperature on the interaction between the predatory sunflower star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) and its prey, the purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus).
  • To assess how this interaction mediates the effects of warming on sea urchin populations and kelp forest resilience.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized three decades of ecological data from California kelp forests.
  • Analyzed population growth rates of purple sea urchins under varying temperatures and sunflower star densities.

Main Results:

  • Higher temperatures increased sea urchin growth in the absence of predators.
  • The negative impact of sunflower stars on sea urchins intensified with increasing temperatures.
  • At sufficient predator densities, warming led to decreased sea urchin population growth, overriding direct temperature effects.

Conclusions:

  • Recovery of sunflower star populations could mitigate sea urchin proliferation, enhancing kelp forest resilience to climate change.
  • Species interactions play a crucial role in mediating the direct impacts of ocean warming on populations.