A year in the life of a central California kelp forest: physical and biological insights into biogeochemical variability

Koweek, David A.; Nickols, Kerry J.; Leary, Paul R.; Litvin, Steve Y.; Bell, Tom W.; Luthin, Timothy; Lummis, Sarah; Mucciarone, David A.; Dunbar, Robert B.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-31-2017

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-31-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-31-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

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05 Jan 2017

Research article |

| 05 Jan 2017

A year in the life of a central California kelp forest: physical and biological insights into biogeochemical variability

David A. Koweek, Kerry J. Nickols, Paul R. Leary, Steve Y. Litvin, Tom W. Bell, Timothy Luthin, Sarah Lummis, David A. Mucciarone, and Robert B. Dunbar

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This paper presents results from a year-long study of a kelp forest offshore of Pacific Grove, California. We use tools and techniques from chemistry to study the kelp forest. We find very large chemical variability in the kelp forest, primarily between the surface of the water and the bottom of the forest. There are many reasons for this variability; we conclude that both regional upwelling and kelp growth are responsible for contributing to this variability.