barrens
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But when wasting disease in effect wiped out their main predator, the sea urchins exploded in number, decimating kelp forests and transforming once-lush underwater habitats into so-called urchin barrens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025
"A classic example of multiple stressors causing a regime shift is the transition from kelp forests to urchin barrens in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of North America," Meunier said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
The wild blueberry, which grows in the sprawling barrens of Maine’s rural east, is the state’s official berry and one of its most significant exports.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
Narrow but well-worn paths weave through a landscape of heath and coastal barrens, a colorful carpet of wildflowers and evergreens made into dwarf-like shrubs by constant exposure to salt spray and wind.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022
It worked again and again, his own iron fact, in alleys and pine barrens and swamps.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
