4 articles
Kelp is not a plant — it is a brown alga built around a stolen red-algal plastid. Tracing 200 million years of stramenopile evolution that produced the forest.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·
Marine biogeography splits kelp coasts into distinct provinces, each with its own species and history. A tour of the regions — and the barriers that made them.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Kelp barely fossilises, yet fossils, archaeology and DNA tell a rich story: Neogene origins, extinct kelp grazers, the kelp highway and ancient Indigenous stewardship.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Kelp survived the ice ages in pockets called glacial refugia. That history still structures the genetics of today's forests — and guides restoration.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·