[Coral-List] Info about mass mortality of echinoderms

[Isabelle Côté]

Hello coral listers, 

We're currently compiling a global database of mass mortality events of echinoderms. We have a fair bit of info already about older (pre-2000) events but relatively little about events that have occurred in the past 15 years or so. If you have witnessed or are aware of recent (i.e. post-2000) mortality events affecting seastars, urchins or sea cucumbers, anywhere in the world, please let me ( imcote at sfu.ca ) or Jessica Schultz ( jessica.schultz at vanaqua.org ) know. Many thanks. 

Isabelle 


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Dr Isabelle Côté 
Professor of Marine Ecology 
Department of Biological Sciences 
Simon Fraser University 
Burnaby, BC 
V5A 1S6 
Canada 

tel. +1-778-782-3705 (direct), 782-4475 (secretary) 
fax +1-778-782-3496 
http://www.sfu.ca/biology/faculty/cote 

'I am very busy with the Zoology of the Sea; the treasures of the deep to a naturalist are indeed inexhaustible.' 
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of Beagle 

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