Assessing lobster and co-predator feeding rates on barrens-forming sea urchins in South East Australia

Globally, key predators such as lobsters are thought to control urchins. In south-eastern Australia, the role of Sagmariasus verreauxi (eastern rock lobster) as a key predator of the native urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii (long-spined urchin) has been questioned while the sympatric Heliocidaris ery...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Marine Science
Main Authors:	Jeremy K. Day, Nathan A. Knott, Daniel S. Swadling, Megan J. Huggett, Troy F. Gaston
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-10-01
Subjects:	Great Southern Reef Palinuridae Echinodermata temperate reef predator dynamics feeding ecology
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1418506/full