Sentences with phrase «diverse marine food webs»

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 energy and provided a linear dispersal corridor entirely at sea level, with few obstacles to maritime peoples.

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But when a giant shelf collapses — as Larsen A and B did in 1995 and 2002 — solar - powered plankton production ramps up, and scientists think it could jump - start a complex food web of diverse marine life.