In these beautifully illustrated pages, youll discover underwater forests that nourish and protect sea life in every nook and cranny, from swaying canopies to hideouts in the holdfasts. As giant kelp stretches upward, it spreads its canopy of golden blades across the waters surface. Shafts of sunlight penetrate this spots to highlight bright sea stars in the red seaweeds. And rainbow-colored snails crawl up the kelp, while fishes hang motionless in this undersea jungle. Monterey Bay Aquariums Natural History Series brings you closer to the living marine and coastal communities of the nations largest marine sanctuary, where youll come face to face with some of the more interesting residents. Produced by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Press, these books will stimulate your curiosity and understanding of the natural world. from chapter 1: "Scramble along the rocky shore at low tide and crouch down in a respectful bow to slippery rocks and seaweeds. Reach out and touch the tangle of nearshore kelps: tough cabbage heads, slick leathery neckties and feathery boas. Out beyond the pounding surf, you can see the canopies of the elegant deep water kelps. Isolated floats of bull kelp bob in the surge like the heads of swimming otters. Stretching upward from the deeper rocks, a snarl of giant kelp spreads fronds across the waters surface."
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Golden kelp forests shelter a rich community of living creatures.
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The books style will please the general reader, yet its depth of information makes it suitable as a reference book as well. -- Ocean Realm
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Judith Connor received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, where she studied marine ecology of tropical rocky shores. She is the author of Seashore Life on Rocky Coasts and co-author of The Deep Sea.
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Focused on Monterey, but for all interested in kelp forests,
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This review is from: Kelp Forests (Paperback)
Kelp Forests is a slim (64 pages) paperback book published by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It focuses, understandably, on the kelp ecosystems in Monterey Bay, although there certainly are elements of kelp forest ecology that are applicable to other kelp forests throughout the oceans.
The authors discuss the anatomy and physiology of a number of species of kelp (primarily the giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera), the life history of these plants, and many ecosystem attributes of the kelp forest here: interactions such as competition, predation, and parasitism; and interactions with other plants and animals, in the water and, surprisingly, on shore. This book refers often to the exhibits at the world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium. Because of this, readers may pass it by, thinking that it is nothing other than a tour guide. It is more than this, and interesting to all that wonder about the kelp forests. As I write this, the bay is being visited by 20 foot waves. In two days, I've seen one small inlet about 25 meters across go from a sandy beach to having giant kelp washed ashore in a complete ring approximately 2 meters in height. That is a lot of kelp! As I walked done to inspect it, I noticed a springiness in the sand; somewhere under the sand (I suspect) was another layer of kelp, now buried. That organic material doesn't spend its entire life in the ocean. The listed price for this book is $9.95. It wasn't at the aquarium's bookstore/gift shop today, so perhaps it is out of print.
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