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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 ...
Kombu is a loanword from Japanese.. In Old Japanese, edible seaweed was generically called "me" (cf. wakame, arame) and kanji such as "軍布", [3] 海藻 [4] or "和布" [5] were applied to transcribe the word.
Ecklonia radiata, commonly known as golden kelp, common kelp, spiny kelp or leather kelp, is a species of kelp found in the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands, Madagascar, Mauritania, Senegal, South Africa, Oman, southern Australia, Lord Howe Island, and New Zealand.
Smaller areas of anchored kelp are called kelp beds. They are recognized as one of the most productive and dynamic ecosystems on Earth. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although algal kelp forest combined with coral reefs only cover 0.1% of Earth's total surface, they account for 0.9% of global primary productivity . [ 3 ]
The primary common name is derived from the Japanese name wakame (ワカメ, わかめ, 若布, 和布). [11] [12] In English, it can also be called sea mustard. [13] In Chinese, it is called qúndài cài [14] or hǎidài yá ; In French, it is called wakamé or fougère des mers ('sea fern'). In Korean, it is called miyeok . [14]
Some English names include edible kelp, bull kelp, bullwhip kelp, ribbon kelp, bladder wrack, and variations of these names. [2] Due to the English name, bull kelp can be confused with southern bull kelps, which are found in the Southern Hemisphere. [3] [4] Nereocystis luetkeana forms thick beds on subtidal rocks, and is an important part of ...
Laminaria hyperborea is a species of large brown alga, a kelp in the family Laminariaceae, also known by the common names of tangle and cuvie. It is found in the sublittoral zone of the northern Atlantic Ocean. A variety, Laminaria hyperborea f. cucullata (P.Svensden & J.M.Kain, 1971) is known from more wave sheltered areas in Scandinavia. [2]
Saccharina latissima is a brown alga (class Phaeophyceae), of the family Laminariaceae.It is known by the common names sugar kelp, [2] sea belt, [3] and Devil's apron, [4] and is one of the species known to Japanese cuisine as kombu. [5]