- Land/Ocean Interactions and the Dynamics of Kelp Forest Ecosystems🔍
- Spatial synchrony cascades across ecosystem boundaries and up ...🔍
- Sea Otters and Kelp Forests in Alaska🔍
- Southeast Alaskan kelp forests🔍
- Giant Kelp and Bull Kelp Enhanced Status Report🔍
- Assessing the role of natural kelp forests in modifying seawater ...🔍
- Spatiotemporal variability in kelp forest and seagrass ecosystems ...🔍
- 14 Giant Kelp Forests🔍
The Response of Kelp Forest Organisms to Spatial and Temporal ...
Land/Ocean Interactions and the Dynamics of Kelp Forest Ecosystems
spatial and temporal scales over which terrestrial runoff and ocean forcing perturbs kelp forest ecosystems ... responses to temporal variation in nutrient ...
Spatial synchrony cascades across ecosystem boundaries and up ...
We found that synchrony cascades from rocky reefs to sandy beaches, with spatiotemporal patterns mediated by fluctuations in live kelp biomass, wave action, ...
Sea Otters and Kelp Forests in Alaska - jstor
of surface canopy kelps by understory species and the longer time ... Temporal and spatial patterns of disturbance and recovery in a kelp forest community.
Southeast Alaskan kelp forests: inferences of process from large ...
Here, we use similar data gathered at multiple temporal and spatial scales to show how the local harvesting of sea otters appears to have ...
Giant Kelp and Bull Kelp Enhanced Status Report
2004). Throughout Mexico, California, and the Gulf of Alaska, kelp forest community species in important functional groups including predators, herbivores, and ...
Assessing the role of natural kelp forests in modifying seawater ...
Although kelp forests can provide local refuges to biota from OA, the benefits are variable through time and may be reduced by declines in kelp ...
Spatiotemporal variability in kelp forest and seagrass ecosystems ...
Submerged aquatic vegetation, such as kelp forests and seagrass beds, has the potential to locally ameliorate OA by removing CO2 during photosynthesis and ...
14 Giant Kelp Forests: Conclusions and Final Thoughts
This chapter presents an overview of climate changes, and assesses the potential effects on giant kelp and associated organisms. The earth's climate is changing ...
California's critical kelp forests are disappearing in a warming world ...
Kelp forests don't just play a fundamental role in curbing climate change. Sea otters and some 800 other marine species depend on them, as do ...
Floating forests that once harbored and fed many marine species have turned into barrens devoid of biodiversity. Using 34 years of Landsat ...
COMPLEX TROPHIC INTERACTIONS IN KELP FOREST ...
The dynamics of kelp forests in southwest Alaska thus appears to have been influenced by an ecological chain reaction that encompassed numerous species and ...
A year in the life of a central California kelp forest - BG
Our goals were to quantify temporal and spatial carbon system biogeochem- ical variability in a kelp forest over an annual cycle and in-.
Temperature and food chain length, but not latitude, explain region ...
environmental variables can mediate the responses of kelp forests ... accounting for spatial autocorrelation, kelp forest persistence was strongly ...
(carbon fixed via photosynthesis) and ecosystem respiration within a seagrass bed or kelp forest ecosystem. ... High temporal and spatial variability of dissolved ...
Take a Virtual Dive in a Kelp Forest - California Academy of Sciences
Visit an underwater forest near Point Lobos, California, to learn what a kelp forest food web looks like. From the smallest microbes to the largest animals, ...
Spatial Patterns in the Response of California's Kelp Forests to ...
Author(s): Cavanaugh, Katherine | Advisor(s): Cavanaugh, Kyle C | Abstract: Kelp forests, like many marine ecosystems, are being exposed to more frequent ...
Spatial Variability in the Resistance and Resilience of Giant Kelp in ...
We examined spatial patterns in resistance, i.e., the initial response of kelp, and resilience, i.e., the abundance of kelp 2 years after the ...
Latitudinal, seasonal, and small-scale spatial differences of the giant ...
Data suggest seasonal differences may be modulated by the environmental variability in the temperate kelp populations and support local coupling ...
Threats and knowledge gaps for ecosystem services provided by ...
Kelp forests can be highly dynamic systems that exhibit pronounced spatiotemporal variability. Kelps are suscepti- ble to physical, chemical, ...
Award # 0647663 - Collaborative Research: Kelp forest interaction ...
The available information indicates that kelp forests collapsed very rapidly following the sea otter decline, and that this rapid shift was facilitated by the ...