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SUPERthrive is a concentrated non-toxic vitamin solution that claims to enhance plant growth. It contains .09% vitamin B 1 and a proprietary plant health formula based in kelp. Superthrive has been available since 1940. Superthrive was developed by Dr. John A. A. Thomson in 1939 and is manufactured by the Vitamin Institute in North Hollywood ...
An alternative offset would be to cultivate kelp forests. Kelp can grow at 2 feet per day, 30 times faster than terrestrial plants. Planting kelp across 10% of the oceans (4.5 x the area of Australia) could provide the same offset. Additionally, the kelp would support a fish harvest of 2 megatons per year and reduce ocean acidification. Large ...
This "kelp highway hypothesis" suggested that highly productive kelp forests supported rich and diverse marine food webs in nearshore waters, including many types of fish, shellfish, birds, marine mammals, and seaweeds that were similar from Japan to California, Erlandson and his colleagues also argued that coastal kelp forests reduced wave ...
The veterinarian who lives in Berkeley, California is part of a crew of volunteers who swim, snorkel and dive armed with pick axes and hammers on a sole mission: To crush purple urchins that ...
Additionally, exploitation of kelp resources for potash production left little kelp behind for local fertilizer and coastal land became more desirable than inland regions. [18] [21] The Scottish seaweed industry went through multiple boom and bust cycles, employing 10,000 families and producing 3,000 tonnes of ash per year during its peak.
A California Flora and Supplement, Philip A. Munz and David D. Keck, UC Press; Ritter, Matt (2018). California Plants: A Guide to Our Iconic Flora. San Luis Obispo, California: Pacific Street Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9998960-0-6. Grasses in California, Beecher Crampton, UC Press
California is in one of the world’s 36 biodiversity hot spots and is home to more than 6,000 types of native plants, including hundreds of wildflower species. Only a few other places on Earth ...
Macrocystis pyrifera has been utilized for many years as a food source; [42] [43] it also contains many compounds such as iodine, potassium, other minerals vitamins and carbohydrates and thus has also been used as a dietary supplement. [44] [45]: 58 In the beginning of the 20th century California kelp beds were harvested as a source for soda ash.