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In the North Pacific kelp forests, particularly rockfish, and many invertebrates, such as amphipods, shrimp, marine snails, bristle worms, and brittle stars. Many marine mammals and birds are also found, including seals, sea lions, whales, sea otters , gulls, terns, snowy egrets , great blue herons , and cormorants, as well as some shore birds.
Walking back along the shoreline, she scoops up a few shafts of rubbery kelp – the seaweed poster boy of America's Pacific northwest. “The bull kelp forest that runs along the Oregon coast is ...
In recent years, the kelp forests have decreased dramatically throughout Japan, Chile, Korea, Australia and North America. [50] Harvesting of kelp as a food source and other uses may be the least concerning aspect to its depletion. In the Northwest Pacific kelp forests in waters near large population centres may be most affected by the sewer ...
Kelp forests extend along the west coast of North America from Alaska to Baja California. [1] Kelp are large brown algae which anchor to the sea floor. The dominant species are giant kelp ( Macrocystis sp.), which can grow up to 60 metres (200 ft) tall, forming the canopy of the kelp forest and bouyed by air bladders or pneumatocysts at the ...
Northern kelp crab (Pugettia producta) and graceful kelp crab (Pugettia gracilis), Pacific coast of North America. Kelpfish (e.g., Heterosticbus rostratus, genus Gibbonsia), Pacific coast of North America. Kelp goose (kelp hen) (Chloephaga hybrida), South America and the Falkland Islands
Pterygophora californica is a large species of kelp, commonly known as stalked kelp. It is the only species in its genus Pterygophora (Ruprecht, 1852). [2] It grows in shallow water on the Pacific coast of North America where it forms part of a biodiverse community in a "kelp forest". It is sometimes also referred to as woody-stemmed kelp ...
In the eastern North Pacific, its range is from Humboldt Bay, California, to the Gulf of California, Mexico, most common from Point Conception southward. In the northwestern Pacific it occurs around Japan. [7] It usually stays near kelp forests, drop-offs, or rocky bottoms and sand or mudflats. [8]
Laminaria nigripes is a species of kelp found in the North Atlantic and North Pacific within Arctic and subarctic waters including Vancouver Island, Haida Gawaii, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Downeast Maine, and the Bay of Fundy. The species may be found exclusively in the Arctic, but frequent misidentification of samples has led to speculation ...