Two of this year's recipients of the prestigious Westpac Future Leaders Scholarships are proud to call Tasmania home, finding ...

This is not the Amazon or any terrestrial jungle—this is a kelp forest, one of the planet’s most vital yet overlooked ...

Sea otters are keystone species in kelp forests. Kelp forests rely on the top-down pressure sea otters exert via predation on ...

Anybody who dives or snorkels along the southern Australian coast will be familiar with the kelp beds that line that part of the continent. Winkled into the topography of the sea floor, they are often ...

Marine heat waves that seemed extreme just a decade ago will become commonplace by the end of this century in waters favored ...

Kelp forests in some areas of the world have been declining in ... For example, rising sea temperatures and extreme heatwaves in 2011 caused Western Australia to lose 43% of its kelps. There was also ...

describe characteristics of a kelp forest ecosystem. explain the interactions between habitats and species. give examples of producers, consumers and scavengers in a kelp forest. draw and label ...