How #Kelp Keeps a Record of Environmental Calamity https://undark.org/2023/10/31/bull-kelp-destruction/

Integrating kelp #genomics analyses and geological data to reveal ancient #earthquake impacts https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2023.0105

"On a coastal rock platform near #Rārangi, #NewZealand, the team stumbled on another pocket of odd kelp #genetics. The kelp, they found, shared the genes of a population from 300 kilometers away. Something had clearly happened here."

How Kelp Keeps a Record of Environmental Calamity

Scientists are coming to understand how bull kelp provides a map of the southern hemisphere’s turbulent tectonic past.

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