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- Giant Kelp Marine Forests of South East Australia - DCCEEW
The Giant Kelp Marine Forests of South East Australia ecological community has been progressively lost, especially on the east coast of Tasmania, due to changing oceanographic conditions and corresponding changes in threatening processes caused by climate change
- Giant Kelp Ecological Community - DCCEEW
But after significant declines in recent decades, remnant fragments of Giant Kelp forests are now only found in Tasmania These areas form the priority place for focus under the Threatened Species Action Plan
- Map of Giant Kelp Marine Forests of South East Australia Ecological . . .
Map Description 'Likely to occur': Areas where the threatened ecological community is likely to occur are compiled from Edyvane historic and current extant mapping (1), Victorian video survey data (2), and descriptions of locations supplied by experts
- Invasive sea urchin endangers giant kelp forests
In many areas, the sea urchins have grazed giant kelp out of existence, leaving ‘urchin barrens’ Past over-fishing may have facilitated this by depleting rock lobsters, the principal predators of sea urchins
- Fleurieu Peninsula and South East marine parks
Giant kelp forests have national protection as endangered ecosystems and shelter a range of other marine life, including reef fish, sea snails, sea urchins, algae and crabs With their beautiful leaf-like appendages, leafy sea dragons are South Australia’s marine emblem
- Giant Kelp Forests | Glenelg Hopkins Regional Catchment Strategy
They are the largest and fastest growing marine plant species These forests provide shelter and food to a large range of marine algae, reef fish and invertebrates
- Giant kelp marine forests of south east Australia - Wikipedia
This is the only kelp which gives this three dimensional structure from the sea floor to the sea surface, and the loss of giant kelp plants destroys this community
- Listing of giant kelp forests as endangered - Tasmanian Conservation Trust
Research shows that giant kelp forests are able to survive and thrive in no-take marine reserves such as (part of) Maria Island and Governor Island, which are refuges for large urchin-predating rock lobsters
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