Presentation Year

2016

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Aria Armendariz PeavyBiology Undergraduate Student

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The presence of Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) has caused fluctuations in the abundance of sea stars in the intertidal. Pisaster ochraceus is a keystone predator of the intertidal (Bates, et al., 2009) and has an increased potential to alter the food web now that SSWD has manifested itself within the population. It is a consumer of several species of chiton, snails, and limpets (Paine, et al.,1980) found in our coast’s intertidal communities. Due to the fluctuation in populations of the Pisaster ochraceus, fluctuations of predation should occur as well. Like most predator prey population models predator population size should inversely affect prey population size.

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