San Nicolas Island is surrounded by broad areas of shallow subtidal habitat, characterized by dynamic kelp forest communities that undergo dramatic and abrupt shifts in community composition. Although these reefs are fished, the physical isolation of the island means that they receive less impact from human activities than most reefs in Southern California, making San Nicolas an ideal place to evaluate alternative theories abo...

Forest harvesting and wildfire were widespread in the upper Great Lakes region of North America during the early 20th century. We examined how long this legacy of disturbance constrains forest carbon (C) storage rates by quantifying C pools and fluxes after harvest and fire in a mixed deciduous forest chronosequence in northern lower Michigan, USA. Study plots ranged in age from 6 to 68 years and were created following experim...

Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) surveys were conducted over a 3‐year period to evaluate the importance of macroalgal drift exported from nearshore forests of giant kelp ( Macrocystis pyrifera ) to adjacent submarine‐canyon and continental‐shelf benthic habitats. Abundant macroalgal drift was found in the Carmel Submarine Canyon (153– 454‐m depth) but was rare at Pt. Joe, a continental shelf habitat 9 km away (87–357‐m depth)....