Researchers mapped 5,600km of Canada’s coast using 170 years of records; kelp persistence reached 88% in cold waters but fell to 52% in warmer sheltered areas
Centennial persistence of kelp forests on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, Canada Researchers have reconstructed nearly 170 years of the history of kelp forests along Canada’s Pacific coast, finding that colder, wave-exposed waters off Vancouver Island protected most kelp forests while warmer, sheltered areas lost nearly half of them.The study mapped about 5,600 kilometres…