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What's that growing on your lines? A field guide to identifying fouling organisms, telling harmless from harmful, and controlling them without wrecking your site.
Naomi Reyes ·
Kelp isopods graze fouling algae off giant kelp blades — and in boom years can chew through the stipes themselves. Meet the forest's smallest crew.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Membranipora membranacea skins kelp blades in white lattices of tiny zooids — a grazer, a fouler and, in warm years, a real force in kelp forest loss.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
How to spot and manage the main pests and diseases of farmed kelp — epiphytes, grazing snails, ice-ice, endophytic infections and more — with a practical response playbook.
Naomi Reyes ·
A single kelp blade hosts algae, bryozoans, hydroids and a whole mobile fauna. Meet the epiphytes — the living deck that perches on the forest's leaves.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·