Urchins emerge to forage on living kelp when they can’t catch kelp scraps, mowing down swaths of the underwater forest
kelp forest
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Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research program harnesses power of collaboration to understand and help protect the ocean
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The most detailed look at kelp forests to date finds unseen parasites dominate species interactions -
Ecologists piece together an overlooked source of nutrients in Southern California kelp forests -
Researchers find biodiversity stabilizes kelp forest ecosystems far more than expected -
Marine ecologists study the effects of giant kelp on groups of organisms in the underwater forest ecosystem -
Larger sheephead that consume bigger urchins help keep the spiny creature population under control
