Assessing lobster and co-predator feeding rates on barrens-forming sea urchins in South East Australia
Globally, key predators such as lobsters are thought to control urchins.In south-eastern Australia, the role of Sagmariasus verreauxi (eastern rock lobster) as a key predator of the native urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii (long-spined urchin) has been questioned while the sympatric Heliocidaris erythrogramma (short-spined urchin) may be eaten more