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A Crown of Thorns Seastar eats a coral, leaving behind a bleached skeleton. The Seastars graze selectively, eating some species before others, but eventually consume most of the live coral on the reef.

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Crown of Thorns Seastars next to a partially bleached coral. The seastars can only eat what they can access, leading to the bleached coral ends and living interior.

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Aerial photo showing part of the Andrews Forest after the Lookout Fire. The mixed severity burn is fairly representative of the historical fire regime in the area.

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Diversity of annual row cropping systems in LTAR ACSE in July 2023. Sustainably Intensified: a) Soybean, b) Winter wheat, c) Winter canola, d) Forage, e) Corn, f) Restored prairie. Conventional: g) Soybean, h) Corn.

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Aerial view of the Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Aspirational Cropping Systems (ACSE) located at the Kellogg Biological Station LTER in Southwest Michigan being sampled with malaise traps in July 2023.

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KBS graduate student collects insects from a malaise trap in the field.

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Adult purple sea urchins in laboratory acclimation tanks.

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Spawning female purple sea urchin.

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Purple sea urchins, kelp forest herbivores, in the wild.

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