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| Diver in kelp forest. Image ID: 01104 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Giant kelpfish amidst kelp. Image ID: 01291 Species: Giant kelpfish, Heterostichus rostratus, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Jack mackerel and kelp. Image ID: 01499 Species: Pacific jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Kelp forest. Image ID: 02412 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Garibaldi and kelp forest. Image ID: 02509 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California Golden gorgonian in kelp forest. Image ID: 03486 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Red gorgonian on rocky reef below kelp forest. Image ID: 03827 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp forest. Image ID: 04661 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Zebra perch amid kelp forest, Islas San Benito. Image ID: 06200 Species: Zebra perch, Hermosilla azurea, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Benito Islands (Islas San Benito), Baja California, Mexico |
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| California Golden gorgonian in kelp forest. Image ID: 01280 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds grow upward from the reef below to reach the ocean surface and spread out to form a living canopy. Image ID: 07490 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Northern kelp crab crawls amidst kelp blades and stipes, midway in the water column (below the surface, above the ocean bottom) in a giant kelp forest. Image ID: 10218 Species: Northern kelp crab, Pugettia producta, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA |
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| Kelp fronds showing pneumatocysts, bouyant gas-filled bubble-like structures which float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface, where it will spread to form a roof-like canopy. Santa Barbara Island. Image ID: 10228 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | A parent and child admire the fascinating kelp forest tank at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, California. Image ID: 10308 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera | The Kelp Forest offshore of La Jolla, California. A kelp forest. Giant kelp grows rapidly, up to 2' per day, from the rocky reef on the ocean bottom to which it is anchored, toward the ocean surface where it spreads to form a thick canopy. Myriad species of fishes, mammals and invertebrates form a rich community in the kelp forest. Lush forests of kelp are found through California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 30995 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| The Kelp Forest offshore of La Jolla, California. A kelp forest. Giant kelp grows rapidly, up to 2' per day, from the rocky reef on the ocean bottom to which it is anchored, toward the ocean surface where it spreads to form a thick canopy. Myriad species of fishes, mammals and invertebrates form a rich community in the kelp forest. Lush forests of kelp are found through California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 30996 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: La Jolla, California, USA | A kelp forest. Giant kelp grows rapidly, up to 2' per day, from the rocky reef on the ocean bottom to which it is anchored, toward the ocean surface where it spreads to form a thick canopy. Myriad species of fishes, mammals and invertebrates form a rich community in the kelp forest. Lush forests of kelp are found through California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 23455 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Diver amidst kelp forest. Image ID: 19925 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 25405 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 25411 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp forest. Image ID: 03418 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Kelp forest. Image ID: 19923 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Drift kelp, a kelp paddy, floating patch of kelp on the open ocean which attracts marine life and forms of moving oasis of life, an open ocean habitat, aerial photo. Image ID: 29082 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: California, USA | A view of an underwater forest of giant kelp. Giant kelp grows rapidly, up to 2' per day, from the rocky reef on the ocean bottom to which it is anchored, toward the ocean surface where it spreads to form a thick canopy. Myriad species of fishes, mammals and invertebrates form a rich community in the kelp forest. Lush forests of kelp are found through California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 25402 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Blue sky and clouds viewed from underwater within a kelp forest, looking straight up through an opening in the kelp. Image ID: 03415 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | The Kelp Forest offshore of La Jolla, California. A kelp forest. Giant kelp grows rapidly, up to 2' per day, from the rocky reef on the ocean bottom to which it is anchored, toward the ocean surface where it spreads to form a thick canopy. Myriad species of fishes, mammals and invertebrates form a rich community in the kelp forest. Lush forests of kelp are found throughout California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 30998 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: La Jolla, California, USA | A kelp forest. Giant kelp grows rapidly, up to 2' per day, from the rocky reef on the ocean bottom to which it is anchored, toward the ocean surface where it spreads to form a thick canopy. Myriad species of fishes, mammals and invertebrates form a rich community in the kelp forest. Lush forests of kelp are found through California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 23435 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| A kelp forest. Giant kelp grows rapidly, up to 2' per day, from the rocky reef on the ocean bottom to which it is anchored, toward the ocean surface where it spreads to form a thick canopy. Myriad species of fishes, mammals and invertebrates form a rich community in the kelp forest. Lush forests of kelp are found through California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 23446 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp forest. Image ID: 04651 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 34607 Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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