Biodiverse kelp forest (IMAGE)

Oregon State University

Biodiverse kelp forest

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The seafloor at this San Nicolas Island monitoring site exhibits an incredible diversity of invertebrates and algae. While urchins are present at these sites, they were not observed to form urchin-barrens in the nearly 40 years of subtidal monitoring (photo taken 2018).

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Photo provided by Zachary Randell.

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