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Successful large-scale and long-term kelp forest restoration by culling sea urchins with quicklime and supported by crab predationNARA Subscribed
In 2013, a large scale (70 hectare) kelp forest restoration experiment was conducted in a sea urchin barren that had been stable for 45 years. We used 200 tons of quicklime to eradicate the sea urchin population. Kelp recovered within a year in the lime-treated sites. Quickliming did not significantly affect the abundance of non-target species. Mobile kelp fauna colonized the restored kelps, but at a slower rate than kelp and...
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