Dawson, M. N., Duffin, P. J., Giakoumis, M., Schiebelhut, L. M., Beas-Luna, R., Bosley, K. L., ... & Wares, J. P. (2023). A decade of death and other dynamics: deepening perspectives on the diversity and distribution of sea stars and wasting. The Biological Bulletin, 244(3), 143-163.
Galloway, A. W. E., Gravem, S. A., Kobelt, J. N., Heady, W. N., Okamoto, D. K., Sivitilli, D. M., ... & Whippo, R. (2023). Sunflower sea star predation on urchins can facilitate kelp forest recovery. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290(1993), 20221897.
Hamilton, S. L., V. R. Saccomanno, W. N. Heady, A. L. Gehman, S. I. Lonhart, R. Beas-Luna, F. T. Francis, et al. 2021. Disease-driven mass mortality event leads to widespread extirpation and variable recovery potential of a marine predator across the eastern Pacific. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288:20211195.
Harvell, C. D., Montecino-Latorre, D., Caldwell, J. M., Burt, J. M., Bosley, K., Keller, A., ... & Gaydos, J. K. (2019). Disease epidemic and a marine heat wave are associated with the continental-scale collapse of a pivotal predator (Pycnopodia helianthoides). Science advances, 5(1), eaau7042.
Heady, W.N., R. Beas-Luna, M.N Dawson, N. Eddy, K. Elsmore, F. T. Francis, T. Frierson, A.L. Gehman, T. Gotthardt, S.A. Gravem, J. Grebel, S. L. Hamilton, L. Hannah, C.D. Harvell, J. Hodin, I. Kelmartin, C. Krenz, L. Lee, J. Lorda, D. Lowry, S. Mastrup, E. Meyer, P. T. Raimondi, S. S. Rumrill, V. R. Saccomanno, L. M. Schiebelhut, C. Siddon. 2022. Roadmap to recovery for the sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) along the west coast of North America. The Nature Conservancy, Sacramento, CA, US. 44 pages.
Hodin, J., Pearson-Lund, A., Anteau, F. P., Kitaeff, P., & Cefalu, S. (2021). Progress toward complete life-cycle culturing of the endangered sunflower star, Pycnopodia helianthoides. The Biological Bulletin, 241(3), 243-258.
McPherson, M. L., Finger, D. J., Houskeeper, H. F., Bell, T. W., Carr, M. H., Rogers-Bennett, L., & Kudela, R. M. (2021). Large-scale shift in the structure of a kelp forest ecosystem co-occurs with an epizootic and marine heatwave. Communications biology, 4(1), 298.
Schultz, J. A., Cloutier, R. N., & Côté, I. M. (2016). Evidence for a trophic cascade on rocky reefs following sea star mass mortality in British Columbia. PeerJ, 4, e1980.
Shivji, M., Parker, D., Hartwick, B., Smith, M. J., & Sloan, N. A. (1983). Feeding and distribution study of the sunflower sea star Pycnopodia helianthoides. Pacific Science 37: 133-140.