Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The effects of harvesting Macrocystis pyrifera on the algal assemblage in a giant kelp forest

  • Ecology
  • Published:
Hydrobiologia Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Abbott, I. A. & G. J. Hollenberg, 1976. Marine Algae of California. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 827 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dawson, E. Y., M. Neushul & R. D. Wildman, 1960. Seaweeds associated with kelp beds along southern California and northwestern Mexico. Pac. Nat. 1: 1–81.

    Google Scholar 

  • Foster, M. S., 1975. Regulation of algal community development in a Macrocystis pyrifera forest. Mar. Biol. 32: 331–342.

    Google Scholar 

  • Foster, M. S., 1982. The regulation of macroalgal associations in kelp forest. In L. Srivastava (ed.), Synthetic and Degradative Processes in Marine Macrophytes. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin: 185–205.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gerard, V. A., 1976. Some aspects of material dynamics and energy flow in a kelp forest in Monterey Bay, California. PhD Thesis, Univ. Calif., Santa Cruz, 173 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kimura, R. S., 1980. The effects of harvesting Macrocystis pyrifera on understory algae in Carmel Bay, California. MA Thesis, Calif. St. Univ., Fresno, 108 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Miller, D. J. & J. J. Geibel, 1973. Summary of blue rockfish and lingcod life histories; a reef ecology study; and giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, experiments in Monterey Bay, California. Fish Bull. 158, St. Calif. Dept. Fish & Game, Sacramento, 137 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Neushul, M., 1965. SCUBA diving studies of vertical distribution of benthic marine plants. Proc. mar. biol. Symp. 5: 161–176.

    Google Scholar 

  • Neushul, M., 1971. Submarine illumination in Macrocystis beds. In W. J. North (ed.), The Biology of Giant Kelp Beds (Macrocystis) in California. Beih. Nova Hedwigia 32, J. Cramer, Lehre: 241–254.

  • North, W. J., 1957. Cutting of kelp. In W. J. North (ed.), Kelp Investigations Program Annual Report for the Period 1 July 1956–30 June 1957. Univ. Calif. Inst. Mar. Resour., La Jolla: 20–24.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pearse, J. S. & A. H. Hines, 1979. Expansion of a central California kelp forest following the mass mortality of sea urchins. Mar. Biol. 51: 83–91.

    Google Scholar 

  • Reed, D. C. & M. S. Foster, 1984. The effects of canopy shading on algal recruitment and growth in a giant kelp forest. Ecology 65: 937–948.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rosenthal, R. J., W. D. Clark & P. K. Dayton, 1974. Ecology and natural history of a stand of giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, off Del Mar, California. Fish. Bull. 72: 670–684.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sokal, R. R. & F. J. Rohlf, 1969. Introduction to Biostatistics. W. H. Freeman & Co. Press, San Francisco, 375 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Zar, J. H., 1974. Biostatistical Analysis. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, 620 pp.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Author notes

  1. R. S. Kimura

    Present address: TERA Corporation, Marine Studies Group, P.O. Box 400, 93424, Avila Beach, CA, U.S.A.

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, P.O. Box 223, 95039, Moss Landing, CA, U.S.A.

    R. S. Kimura & M. S. Foster

Authors
  1. R. S. Kimura
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. M. S. Foster
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Kimura, R.S., Foster, M.S. The effects of harvesting Macrocystis pyrifera on the algal assemblage in a giant kelp forest. Hydrobiologia 116, 425–428 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00027714

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00027714

Keywords

Search

Navigation