Disease-driven mass mortality event leads to widespread extirpation and variable recovery potential of a marine predator across the eastern Pacific ...

• Main Authors: Hamilton, Sara, Saccomanno, Vienna, Heady, Walter, Gehman, Alyssa-Lois, Lonhart, Steve, Beas-Luna, Rodrigo, Francis, Fiona, Lee, Lynn, Rogers-Bennett, Laura, Salomon, Anne, Gravem, Sarah
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2021
• Subjects: FOS Natural sciences; Baja; British Columbia; Canada; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; First Nations; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9kd51c5hg; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.9kd51c5hg

The prevalence of disease-driven mass mortality events is increasing, but our understanding of spatial variation in their magnitude, timing, and triggers are often poorly resolved. Here, we use a novel range-wide dataset comprised of 48,810 surveys to quantify how Sea Star Wasting Disease affected P...