9 articles
In the brackish, landlocked Black Sea, Cystoseira barbata once built kelp-like forests on shallow rock. Eutrophication broke them; now the coast is rebuilding.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Cystoseira osmundacea — chain bladder kelp — strings pearl-like floats along California's subtidal rocks. Identification, biology, and why it's no true kelp.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
A coastal atlas guide to Corsica — Cystoseira canopy forests, vast Posidonia meadows, and the Mediterranean's only true kelp in deep water off the island of granite.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Cystoseira and kin built the Mediterranean's underwater forests for millennia. Why these canopy algae are retreating, and what it takes to bring them back.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Croatia's island-chained coast grows the Mediterranean's great brown algal canopies on drowned karst — clear water, coralligenous reefs and forests now measured in fragments.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A granite-and-limestone island ringed by brown-algal canopies, Posidonia meadows and marine reserves — the Mediterranean's canopy kelp story, up close.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Sicily's volcanic islands carry the Mediterranean's richest Cystoseira forests — brown canopies in coral-clear water. A coastal atlas guide to seeing them.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Montenegro's short, mountainous coast holds the Adriatic's southern Cystoseira canopies — drowned-karst bays, rising urchin pressure, and its first young marine parks.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Albania's Ionian shore is one of the Mediterranean's least-mapped algal coasts — karst reefs, Cystoseira canopies, and the single marine park of Karaburun-Sazan.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·