New Zealand's Subantarctic Islands: The Kelp Kingdom Nobody Visits
South of New Zealand lie wind-torn islands wrapped in some of Earth's densest kelp forests. A guide to the Auckland and Campbell islands' wild underwater world.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
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South of New Zealand lie wind-torn islands wrapped in some of Earth's densest kelp forests. A guide to the Auckland and Campbell islands' wild underwater world.
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 ·
Oregon's bull kelp rides one of the wildest upwelling coasts on Earth — and its southern forests are on the edge. A guide to the reefs and the fight back.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·

Reefs are joined by currents into a living network. How connectivity works, why stepping stones matter, and how it shapes marine reserves and kelp restoration.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Eroded volcano harbours, Hector's dolphins, bull kelp and pāua reefs: a field guide to Banks Peninsula and Akaroa, Canterbury's wild maritime backyard.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Marine reserve spillover explained: how protected waters export adult fish and larvae to fishing grounds, what the evidence shows and when benefits appear.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Where cold northern and warm southern currents collide, the Channel Islands grow California's grandest kelp forests — protected by national park and marine reserves.
Sofia Andersson ·
Northland is New Zealand's subtropical-temperate crossover — Ecklonia radiata reefs, kina barrens, the Poor Knights, and reserves that showed how reefs recover.
Tom Okafor ·

A field guide to Point Lobos State Natural Reserve — its kelp canopy, whaling past, cypress groves, dive rules and the trails that read like a textbook.
Tom Okafor ·
A guide to La Jolla's kelp forest, the underwater park that protects it, the leopard sharks of La Jolla Shores, and how to see it all from shore.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·