Atlas9 min read
Bahía Magdalena: Lagoon Life and Kelp at the Pacific's Edge
Bahía Magdalena on Baja's Pacific coast shelters gray whales in mangrove lagoons — and hides giant kelp at its southern limit on the ocean shore outside.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
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Atlas7 min read
Ensenada and Bahía de Todos Santos: Kelp at the Southern Edge
Where giant kelp fades toward its southern limit, Ensenada's upwelled bay hosts Mexico's only commercial kelp harvest and a coast of science, surf and urchins.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Encyclopedia9 min read
Green Abalone: Life on the Kelp Forest Edge
Haliotis fulgens, the green abalone, is a kelp-trapping herbivore of Baja and southern California. Shell, life cycle, fishery history and recovery.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Atlas7 min read
Guadalupe Island: Kelp Edges of Mexico's Far-Offshore Rock
A volcanic island 250 km off Baja with great white sharks above, recovering fur seals on the rocks, and a giant kelp forest that ride out the great heatwaves.
Tom Okafor ·
Encyclopedia8 min read
Horn Shark: The Kelp Bed's Armoured Night Specialist
The horn shark is a small, harmless shark that hunts urchins and abalone by night in kelp beds. Biology, the fin spines, the purple teeth, the screw-shaped egg.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Atlas9 min read
Magdalena Bay: Kelp at the Edge of the Mangroves
Where the California Current's kelp fringe meets Baja's mangrove lagoons — a meeting of two worlds, winter whales and the southern frontier of giant kelp.
Tom Okafor ·
Encyclopedia9 min read
Pink Abalone (Haliotis corrugata): The Corrugated Architect of Baja's Kelp Edge
Pink abalone built Baja California's most storied shellfish fishery, then nearly vanished with the kelp. Inside the cooperative-led fight to bring them back.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas8 min read
Baja California: The Southern Frontier of Giant Kelp
Baja California's Pacific kelp beds mark giant kelp's warm-water frontier — a coast of El Niño crashes, fast recovery, red urchin fisheries and hard-won lessons.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·