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Kelpwatch.org hosts the world's largest dynamic map of canopy-forming kelp species, empowering data-driven management and strategic restoration of kelp forest ecosystems. Kelp forests provide myriad benefits to nature and people in oceans around the world.
A kelp forest is a dense underwater habitat or ecosystem, primarily made up of large brown seaweeds known as kelps. These majestic underwater forests can be found in cold, nutrient-rich waters...
As oceans warm and people develop coastlines, the threat of invasive species continues to be of major concern to the health of kelp forests worldwide. When new species invade a kelp forest, they can cause significant changes to the kelp food web.
7 lis 2023 · This story map is meant to give an overview of the importance of the kelp ecosystem in the greater context of southern California's ocean health. Kelp is important in the carbon cycle, the life cycle of other marine animals, and the economy.
Here, we demonstrate that detritus derived from a dominant kelp in the Northeast Pacific, Nereocystis luetkeana, provides high-quality food for planktonic sea urchin larvae.
13 kwi 2022 · This month, a group of U.S. scientists launched KelpWatch.org – the world’s largest digital map of kelp forests, both in terms of time and space. The open-source web tool analyzes nearly 40 years of Landsat satellite data and interactively displays the kelp forest canopy spanning from Baja California, Mexico to the Oregon-Washington State ...
5 kwi 2022 · Kelp helps form the backbone of the ecosystems in which they are found, providing habitat and food for thousands of species. To further investigate and track kelp growth and survival over time,...
