Echinoderms are gone from San Francisco Bay
Word on the street is there are no longer any Echinoderms in San Francisco Bay due to pollution. Books could be written, and have been.
Maps: Sea Star Wasting in W. North America
Sea Star Wasting (Links)
- http://www.vanaqua.org/act/research/sea-stars
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_wasting_disease
- http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/starfish-wasting-disease.html
- http://losaltos.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/starfish-dieoff-whats-killing-sea-stars-along-the-california-coastline
- http://www.seadocsociety.org/sea-star-wasting-disease/
- http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/is-sea-star-wasting-disease-just-natural-population-control-1.2488695
- http://data.piscoweb.org/marine1/seastardisease.html
- http://deepseanews.com/2013/12/three-reasons-why-fukushima-radiation-has-nothing-to-do-with-starfish-wasting-syndrome/
- http://www.prpeak.com/articles/2014/01/28/community/doc52e858d101dfd157713215.txt
- http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/28/starfish-dying-wasting-disease-mystery/4208859/
- http://www.eeb.ucsc.edu/pacificrockyintertidal/data-products/sea-star-wasting/updates.html
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/sea-stars-are-wasting-away-in-larger-numbers-on-a-wider-scale-in-two-oceans/2013/11/22/05652194-4be1-11e3-be6b-d3d28122e6d4_story.html
- http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2013/12/oregon_coast_isolated_from_mys.html
- ww.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-disease-turning-starfish-into-goo/ (you will experience unsolicited multimedia output)
- http://www.livescience.com/41042-starfish-wasting-disease.html
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