Water motion is a key determinant of marine macroalgal production, influencing directly or
indirectly physiological rates and community structure. Our understanding of how marine …

Seaweeds are receiving increasing attention as third generation biofuels, which do not
compete for land or freshwater with agricultural crops and have a high polysaccharide …

The flow of detritus between habitats is an important form of connectivity that affects regional
productivity and the spatial organization of marine ecosystems. Kelps form highly productive …

The largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all
plants found on earth. Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in …

Aim Understanding the relative importance of climatic and non‐climatic distribution drivers
for co‐occurring, functionally similar species is required to assess potential consequences of …

The giant kelp Macrocystis is the world's largest benthic organism and most widely
distributed kelp taxon, serving as the foundation for diverse and energy-rich habitats that are …

Rafting has been inferred as an important dispersal mechanism in the marine environment
by many authors. The success of rafting depends critically on the availability of suitable …

Ocean warming (OW), ocean acidification (OA) and their interaction with local drivers, eg,
copper pollution, may negatively affect macroalgae and their microscopic life stages. We …

Knowledge of long-term and multi-scale trends in ecological systems is a vital component in
understanding their dynamics. We used Landsat satellite imagery to develop the first long …

Net primary production (NPP) is influenced by disturbance‐driven fluctuations in foliar
standing crop (FSC) and resource‐driven fluctuations in rates of recruitment and growth, yet …