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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 ...
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 ...
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]
Laminariaceae is a family of brown algal seaweeds, many genera of which are popularly called "kelp". The table indicates the genera within this family. [ 1 ] The family includes the largest known seaweeds: Nereocystis and Macrocystis .
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.
Pterygophora californica is a large species of kelp, commonly known as stalked kelp. It is the only species in its genus Pterygophora (Ruprecht, 1852). [2] It grows in shallow water on the Pacific coast of North America where it forms part of a biodiverse community in a "kelp forest". It is sometimes also referred to as woody-stemmed kelp ...
Saccharina japonica is a marine species of the Phaeophyceae (brown algae) class, a type of kelp or seaweed, which is extensively cultivated on ropes between the seas of China, Japan and Korea. [1] It has the common name sweet kelp. [2] It is widely eaten in East Asia. [3]