kelps

Brown algae called kelps grow the largest and can be easily viewed from the surface.

Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary 2007

Related to the kelps is the giant kelp of the Pacific (_Macrocystis_), which is said sometimes to reach a length of three hundred metres.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

The frilly crinolated forms that you see in corals, and kelps, and sponges, and nudibranchs, is a form of geometry known as hyperbolic geometry.

Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral Margaret Wertheim 2009

The frilly crinolated forms that you see in corals, and kelps, and sponges, and nudibranchs, is a form of geometry known as hyperbolic geometry.

Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral Margaret Wertheim 2009

The frilly crinolated forms that you see in corals, and kelps, and sponges, and nudibranchs, is a form of geometry known as hyperbolic geometry.

Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral Margaret Wertheim 2009

As it has grown the reef has spawned, dividing and growing into multiple sub-reefs, each with its own unique ecology of corals, anemones, kelps and other sea life.

Archive 2008-08-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008

As it has grown the reef has spawned, dividing and growing into multiple sub-reefs, each with its own unique ecology of corals, anemones, kelps and other sea life.

The Plastic Exploding Inevitable Dodie Bellamy 2008

Their disproportionate impacts stem from their voracious appetite for sea urchins, herbivorous invertebrates whose feeding on kelps in turn determine whether rocky bottoms will become dominated by large kelps (in the absence of urchins) versus by crustose calcified algae (in the presence of urchins).

Keystone species 2008

The sea otter Enhydra lutris can be considered a keystone predator because its voracious feeding on herbivorous sea urchins allows kelps to flourish along the rocky coast, along with an entire ecosystem associated with these large marine plants.

Keystone species 2008

And under those kelps -- this is why the Molas come there because it's spa time for the Molas there.

Tierney Thys swims with the giant sunfish Tierney Thys 2003