Catastrophic Storms, El Niño, and Patch Stability in a Southern California Kelp Community
- 20 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 224 (4646), 283-285
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.224.4646.283
Abstract
Strong winter storms in southern California destroyed most of the canopy ofthe giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera but not the patches of understory kelps in the Point Loma kelp forest near San Diego. Subsequent massive recruitment of Macrocystis juveniles and adults that survived the storms had low survival in the summer during the California El Niño of 1983. The combined disturbance may have long-lasting structural consequences for this community because, once established, the understory patches can resist invasion by Macrocystis.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
- Patch Dynamics and Stability of Some California Kelp CommunitiesEcological Monographs, 1984
- El Nino‐induced onshore transport in the California Current during 1982‐1983Geophysical Research Letters, 1984
- Biological Consequences of El NiñoScience, 1983
- Meteorological Aspects of the El Niño/Southern OscillationScience, 1983
- Oceanographic Events During El NiñoScience, 1983
- Large‐scale thermal anomalies in the California Current during the 1982‐1983 El NiñoGeophysical Research Letters, 1983
- Growth and utilization of internal nitrogen reserves by the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera in a low-nitrogen environmentMarine Biology, 1982
- Nitrate and phytoplankton production in southern California coastal waters1Limnology and Oceanography, 1979
- Selective Pressures and Coevolution in a Kelp Canopy Community in Southern CaliforniaEcological Monographs, 1979
- Nutrients and production of giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, off southern California1Limnology and Oceanography, 1977