Study Hints That Kelp Forests May Weather Climate Change

Study Hints That Kelp Forests May Weather Climate Change,
November 18, 2014,
By Chris Clarke,
KCETlive.com

Climate change threatens to radically alter most of California's landscapes, but a recent study suggests that at least one of the state's emblematic ecosystems may actually have a chance to thrive in a greenhouse-gas-enhanced world. The study, published in October in the journal Algae, shows that warmer ocean water with more dissolved carbon dioxide may give California's largest kelp species an advantage over its chief predator, the purple sea urchin.