Devastating Transboundary Impacts of Sea Star Wasting Disease on Subtidal Asteroids

Sea star wasting disease devastated intertidal sea star populations from Mexico to Alaska between 2013–15, but little detail is known about its impacts to subtidal species. We assessed the impacts of sea star wasting disease in the Salish Sea, a Canadian / United States transboundary marine ecosyste...

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Main Authors:	Montecino-Latorre, Diego, Eisenlord, Morgan E., Turner, Margaret, Yoshioka, Reyn, Harvell, C. Drew, Pattengill-Semmens, Christy V., Nichols, Janna D., Gaydos, Joseph K.
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5082671/

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spelling	pubmed-50826712016-11-04 Devastating Transboundary Impacts of Sea Star Wasting Disease on Subtidal Asteroids Montecino-Latorre, Diego Eisenlord, Morgan E. Turner, Margaret Yoshioka, Reyn Harvell, C. Drew Pattengill-Semmens, Christy V. Nichols, Janna D. Gaydos, Joseph K. Research Article Sea star wasting disease devastated intertidal sea star populations from Mexico to Alaska between 2013–15, but little detail is known about its impacts to subtidal species. We assessed the impacts of sea star wasting disease in the Salish Sea, a Canadian / United States transboundary marine ecosystem, and world-wide hotspot for temperate asteroid species diversity with a high degree of endemism. We analyzed roving diver survey data for the three most common subtidal sea star species collected by trained volunteer scuba divers between 2006–15 in 5 basins and on the outer coast of Washington, as well as scientific strip transect data for 11 common subtidal asteroid taxa collected by scientific divers in the San Juan Islands during the spring/summer of 2014 and 2015. Our findings highlight differential susceptibility and impact of sea star wasting disease among asteroid species populations and lack of differences between basins or on Washington’s outer coast. Specifically, severe depletion of sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides) in the Salish Sea support reports of major declines in this species from California to Alaska, raising concern for the conservation of this ecologically important subtidal predator. Public Library of Science 2016-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5082671/ /pubmed/27783620 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163190 Text en © 2016 Montecino-Latorre et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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author	Montecino-Latorre, Diego Eisenlord, Morgan E. Turner, Margaret Yoshioka, Reyn Harvell, C. Drew Pattengill-Semmens, Christy V. Nichols, Janna D. Gaydos, Joseph K.
spellingShingle	Montecino-Latorre, Diego Eisenlord, Morgan E. Turner, Margaret Yoshioka, Reyn Harvell, C. Drew Pattengill-Semmens, Christy V. Nichols, Janna D. Gaydos, Joseph K. Devastating Transboundary Impacts of Sea Star Wasting Disease on Subtidal Asteroids
author_facet	Montecino-Latorre, Diego Eisenlord, Morgan E. Turner, Margaret Yoshioka, Reyn Harvell, C. Drew Pattengill-Semmens, Christy V. Nichols, Janna D. Gaydos, Joseph K.
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title	Devastating Transboundary Impacts of Sea Star Wasting Disease on Subtidal Asteroids
title_short	Devastating Transboundary Impacts of Sea Star Wasting Disease on Subtidal Asteroids
title_full	Devastating Transboundary Impacts of Sea Star Wasting Disease on Subtidal Asteroids
title_fullStr	Devastating Transboundary Impacts of Sea Star Wasting Disease on Subtidal Asteroids
title_full_unstemmed	Devastating Transboundary Impacts of Sea Star Wasting Disease on Subtidal Asteroids
title_sort	devastating transboundary impacts of sea star wasting disease on subtidal asteroids
description	Sea star wasting disease devastated intertidal sea star populations from Mexico to Alaska between 2013–15, but little detail is known about its impacts to subtidal species. We assessed the impacts of sea star wasting disease in the Salish Sea, a Canadian / United States transboundary marine ecosystem, and world-wide hotspot for temperate asteroid species diversity with a high degree of endemism. We analyzed roving diver survey data for the three most common subtidal sea star species collected by trained volunteer scuba divers between 2006–15 in 5 basins and on the outer coast of Washington, as well as scientific strip transect data for 11 common subtidal asteroid taxa collected by scientific divers in the San Juan Islands during the spring/summer of 2014 and 2015. Our findings highlight differential susceptibility and impact of sea star wasting disease among asteroid species populations and lack of differences between basins or on Washington’s outer coast. Specifically, severe depletion of sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides) in the Salish Sea support reports of major declines in this species from California to Alaska, raising concern for the conservation of this ecologically important subtidal predator.
publisher	Public Library of Science
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Devastating Transboundary Impacts of Sea Star Wasting Disease on Subtidal Asteroids

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