1. What characteristics of plankton make ribbon kelp vital to the ecosystem and world?

Kelp forest provide a unique three-dimensional habitat for marine organisms and are a source for understanding many ecological processes. Kelp provides a physical substrate and habitat for kelp forest communities. The environmental factors necessary for kelp to survive include hard substrate high nutrients, and light. Especially productive kelp forest tends to be associated with areas of significant oceanographic upwelling, a process that de

Overs cool nutrient-rich water from depth to oceans mixed surface layers.

2. A. What characteristics of the kelp allow it to contribute to their ecosystem?

A kelp bed contributes 2-3 times their standing biomass each year. Kelp plants are large. Kelp changes the local enviroment. This allows new organisms that requires the cover, the substrate, the food organisms, and more light or less light that provided by substrate to enter. It has a thicker ribbon of tissue.

B. What characteristics of ribbon kelp may be harmful and How?

Ribbon kelp contains iodine compounds which they obtain by extracting iodine ions from seawater. This iodine can be extracted from seaweed by heating it in the air to an ash. It contains so many minerals and nutrients is such high quantities it may pose health problems if consumed in an incorrect dosage or by those with particular health issues. Kelp can affected your body in many different ways. For instance, bladder war can or worsen acne, and there is a single reported case of causing kidney failure.

C. What characteristics of ribbon kelp Make the unique?

Kelp is a valuable resource and an ecological treasure of our state. Kelp forest provide food and shelter to vast and diverse species or animals and plant life both under water and above. With the increase of human demand and the pollution of our oceans, kelp forests and their delicate habitat are more vulnerable than ever and in dire need of protection and restoration . You can get tangle up in kelp. There are many types of kelp but the largest and most common algae in California can grow from depths of 30ft along the coast and up to 80ft around California's offshore islands.

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