Transplanted kelp reefs at Maria Island, TAS, Australia

Data accompanying Layton et al. 2019, Resilience and stability of kelp forests: the importance of patch dynamics and environment-engineer feedbacks. PLOS ONE.

To explore how resilience and stability of kelp habitats is influenced by this habitat degradation, we created an array of patch reefs of various sizes and supporting adult Ecklonia radiata kelp transplanted at different densities. This enabled testing of how sub-canopy abiotic conditions change with reductions in patch size and adult kelp density, and how this influenced demographic processes of microscopic and macroscopic juvenile kelp.

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Layton C, Shelamoff V, Cameron MJ, Tatsumi M, Wright JT, et al. (2019) Resilience and stability of kelp forests: The importance of patch dynamics and…

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Temporal extent	2014-12-15 – 2016-11-30
Date (creation)	2019-01-06
Status	completed
Update frequency	notPlanned
Metadata language	en
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-05
Created	2026-11-05
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