Data Set 10: Water Motion Across a Kelp Bed
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Shannon Fairres (ex-Botany grad student) wanted to determine how the amount of water flow varied in various parts of beds of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera). Giant kelp is a marine brown alga found along the Pacific coast of North America. Buoyant fronds grow from an attachment (“holdfast”) on the sea floor, reaching lengths of up to 60 m. The upper parts of the fronds often form a dense canopy at the sea surface. Specifically, Shannon measured water motion at seven locations in one kelp bed in Monterey Bay (California). As shown on the map below, five locations (A-E) formed a roughly linear and evenly spaced transect from the seaward side to the shoreward side of
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