6 articles
Restored eelgrass can earn verified blue carbon credits. Walk through the real VM0033 methodology and the Virginia case that proved it could be done.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is a true flowering plant whose meadows fringe kelp forests worldwide: biology, wildlife, carbon and how meadows are restored.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The graceful kelp crab is the smaller, rougher, more widely wandering sibling of the northern kelp crab — as at home in eelgrass as on a kelp frond.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The Pacific spiny lumpsucker is a walnut-sized armoured fish that clamps to kelp and eelgrass with a suction-disc belly. Biology, range, where to look.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Meet the bay pipefish, the Pacific coast's eelgrass mimic — a seahorse relative that hunts like a drifting grass blade from Alaska to Baja.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Graceful crab species profile: the slim Metacarcinus gracilis of eelgrass, bays and kelp edges — how to tell it from a small Dungeness, and its estuary role.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·