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Through a process called trophic cascade, the return of sea otters is restoring balance, keeping crab populations in check, and allowing vital seagrass meadows to thrive once again.

Dehorning rhinos — often seen as a drastic step in conservation — has effectively curbed poaching in South Africa, according to a new study.

Wildlife rehabilitation is the process of nursing sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife back to health so that they can be returned to the wild.

When removing a top predator from an ecosystem causes a domino effect down the entire food chain, it's called a trophic cascade.

Dr. Kathryn Beheshti is an assistant researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Marine Science Institute. Kat is a coastal marine ecologist that specializes in restoration ecology of salt marsh, seagrass, and kelp habitats. Kat received her Ph.D. from the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2021. […]

Brent is a marine ecologist and conservation biologist with Sonoma State University. Research in his lab seeks to determine the processes that affect the stability of coastal ecosystems. Brent’s research centers around coastal habitats like seagrass, salt marsh, and kelp (aka foundation species), which provide valuable ecosystem services that we depend on and are threatened […]

Sea otters are back, and their return is a breath of fresh air for the waters of Monterey Bay.

Orphaned sea otter pups face a harsh reality in the wild, but at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a groundbreaking rehabilitation program is giving them a second chance.

In Idaho's Bear River watershed, the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation have had a busy year tracking the resurgence of life on their land.

When scientists systematically review the plants, animals, and other life in a freshwater ecosystem like a lake or river, it is called a biological survey or biosurvey.