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Science 10 November 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5801, pp. 940 - 941
DOI: 10.1126/science.1131888
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Perspective

Ecological Role of Purple Sea Urchins

John S. Pearse

Long Marine Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz, 100 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA.


Figure 1 Fig. 1. Purple sea urchins (S. purpuratus) grazing on the remains of a giant kelp hold fast after an unusually heavy recruitment in Carmel Bay, California (7). [Photo courtesy of J. M. Watanabe] [View Larger Version of this Image (137K GIF file)]
 

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