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In the North Pacific kelp forests, particularly rockfish, and many invertebrates, such as amphipods, shrimp, marine snails, bristle worms, and brittle stars. Many marine mammals and birds are also found, including seals, sea lions, whales, sea otters , gulls, terns, snowy egrets , great blue herons , and cormorants, as well as some shore birds.
Kelp forests extend along the west coast of North America from Alaska to Baja California. [1] Kelp are large brown algae which anchor to the sea floor. The dominant species are giant kelp ( Macrocystis sp.), which can grow up to 60 metres (200 ft) tall, forming the canopy of the kelp forest and bouyed by air bladders or pneumatocysts at the ...
Northern kelp crab (Pugettia producta) and graceful kelp crab (Pugettia gracilis), Pacific coast of North America. Kelpfish (e.g., Heterosticbus rostratus, genus Gibbonsia), Pacific coast of North America. Kelp goose (kelp hen) (Chloephaga hybrida), South America and the Falkland Islands
The following is a list of marine ecoregions, as defined by the WWF and The Nature Conservancy. The WWF/Nature Conservancy scheme groups the individual ecoregions into 12 marine realms, which represent the broad latitudinal divisions of polar, temperate, and tropical seas, with subdivisions based on ocean basins.
The Western North America bioregion includes the temperate coniferous forests of the coastal and mountain regions of southern Alaska, western Canada, and the western United States from the Pacific Coast and Northern California to the Rocky Mountains (known as the Cascadian bioregion), as well as the cold-winter intermountain deserts and xeric ...
Valleys and Depressions with Xeric Shrub and Low Deciduous Forest 14.5: Southern Pacific Coastal Plain and Hills 14.5.1: Tehuantepec Canyon and Plain with Low Tropical Deciduous Forest and Low Thorn Forest 14.5.2: South Pacific Hills and Piedmonts with Low Tropical Deciduous Forest 14.6: Sierra and Plains of El Cabo 14.6.1
Macrocystis is often a major component of temperate kelp forests. Despite its appearance, it is not a plant; it is a heterokont. Giant kelp is common along the coast of the northeastern Pacific Ocean, from Baja California north to southeast Alaska, and is also found in the southern oceans near South America, South Africa, Australia, and New ...
The Northern Pacific coastal forests are temperate coniferous forest ecoregion of the Pacific coast of North America. It occupies a narrow coastal zone of Alaska, between the Pacific Ocean and the northernmost Pacific Coast Ranges, covering an area of 23,300 square miles (60,400 square kilometers), extending from the Alexander Archipelago in southeast Alaska along the Gulf of Alaska to the ...