ArticlePloS one2016
Devastating Transboundary Impacts of Sea Star Wasting Disease on Subtidal Asteroids.
Article in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed, 83 citations in OpenAlex.
- Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 is a causative agent of sea star wasting disease.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Fjord oceanographic dynamics provide refuge for critically endangeredProceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Marine Protected Areas That Preserve Trophic Cascades Promote Resilience of Kelp Forests to Marine Heatwaves.Global change biology · 2024Article
- A reference genome for ecological restoration of the sunflower sea star, Pycnopodia helianthoides.The Journal of heredity · 2024Article
- Sea stars resist wasting through active immune and collagen systems.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Two decades of change in sea star abundance at a subtidal site in Puget Sound, Washington.PloS one · 2023Article
- A chromosome-level reference genome for the giant pink sea star, Pisaster brevispinus, a species severely impacted by wasting.The Journal of heredity · 2022Article
- Microclimate predicts kelp forest extinction in the face of direct and indirect marine heatwave effects.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2022Article
- A Review of Asteroid Biology in the Context of Sea Star Wasting: Possible Causes and Consequences.The Biological bulletin · 2022Review
- Whole genome resequencing reveals signatures of rapid selection in a virus-affected commercial fishery.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- Disease-driven mass mortality event leads to widespread extirpation and variable recovery potential of a marine predator across the eastern Pacific.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- From sequence to information.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- Evidence That Microorganisms at the Animal-Water Interface Drive Sea Star Wasting Disease.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- Increases and decreases in marine disease reports in an era of global change.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Reciprocal abundance shifts of the intertidal sea stars, Evasterias troschelii and Pisaster ochraceus, following sea star wasting disease.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Sea star wasting disease demography and etiology in the brooding sea star Leptasterias spp.PloS one · 2019Article
- Disease epidemic and a marine heat wave are associated with the continental-scale collapse of a pivotal predator (Science advances · 2019Article
- Microbiome shifts with onset and progression of Sea Star Wasting Disease revealed through time course sampling.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Sudden collapse of a mesopredator reveals its complementary role in mediating rocky reef regime shifts.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Reduction and recovery of keystone predation pressure after disease-related mass mortality.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
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.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.