#kelpforests — Public Fediverse posts

@BBCWildlife @bbc-wildlife-magazine-BBCWildlife #Kelpforests are impressive #ecosystems, characterized by a vast #diversity of #species. These underwater landscapes serve as vital carbon sinks for the #greenhousegas #CO2. Consequently, such extraordinary habitats are of scientific interest for contributing to counteract global warming.

Text by Stefan F. Wirth

References:

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelp_forest#/media/File%3AKelp_forest.jpg

Science writing G. Green (2026): https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/patagonia-megatransect?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

How to Revive #California’s #Underwater Forests? Smash a Spiky, Hungry Foe.
A decade ago, the coastline north of San Francisco was the site of one of the most horrific deforestations ever recorded. More than 90% of the towering, majestic #kelpforests, across 200 miles of glittering shore, were dead and gone in years. Felled by freakishly warm #ocean water.
Cove by cove, #scientists, #divers and volunteers are hauling up #urchins to protect #kelp.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/climate/california-kelp-restoration.html
https://archive.ph/j7Qne

#Biden-#Harris Administration, #NOAA designate 3rd-largest national marine sanctuary
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/biden-harris-administration-noaa-designate-3rd-largest-national-marine-sanctuary

"#Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary (including #KelpForests, rocky #reefs, sandy beaches, underwater mountains and more than 200 #shipwrecks) to be managed with #tribal, #Indigenous community involvement... With this designation, the administration has now conserved more than 45 million acres of lands and waters."

#USpol #Conservation #Harris2024 #California #MPAs #Kelp

How #kelp forests persisted through the large 2014–2016 Pacific marine heat wave https://phys.org/news/2024-02-reveals-kelp-forests-persisted-large.html

Consequences of #KelpForest ecosystem shifts and predictors of persistence through multiple stressors https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2749

"denser and more sheltered #KelpForests can withstand serious stressors amid #warming #ocean temperatures"

Pacific #KelpForests are way older than we thought
https://www.futurity.org/pacific-kelp-forests-age-3167012/

Early #Oligocene kelp holdfasts and stepwise #evolution of the kelp ecosystem in the North Pacific https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2317054121

"#kelp flourished off the US Northwest Coast more than 32 million years ago, long before the appearance of modern groups of marine #mammals, #SeaUrchins, #birds, and #bivalves that today call the forests home."

New tropical #kelp forest discovered in the #Galapagos Islands https://phys.org/news/2023-01-tropical-kelp-forest-galapagos-islands.html

Novel mesophotic #KelpForests in the Galápagos archipelago https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-022-04142-8

Salomé Buglass: "This is the first time that such an extensive and dense #KelpForest has been registered in this part of the Galapagos and at such depths. What we found looks very different from the #Eisenia galapagensis kelp species, discovered in this area in 1934. It is almost twice the normal size."