Kelps’ Long-Distance Dispersal: Role of Ecological/Oceanographic Processes and Implications to Marine Forest Conservation

• Published in: Diversity
• Main Authors: Manuela Bernardes Batista, Antônio Batista Anderson, Paola Franzan Sanches, Paulo Simionatto Polito, Thiago Lima Silveira, Gabriela Velez-Rubio, Fabrizio Scarabino, Olga Camacho, Caroline Schmitz, Ana Martinez, Leonardo Ortega, Graciela Fabiano, Mark Rothman, Gang Liu, Jaime Ojeda, Andrés Mansilla, Luis Barreto, Jorge Assis, Ester Serrão, Rui Santos, Paulo Antunes Horta
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: Kelp rafts; marine migration; niche model; biogeography; upwelling; extratropical cyclone; Antarctic; Stepping Stones; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/d10010011

Long-distance dispersal is one of the main drivers structuring the distribution of marine biodiversity. This study reports the first occurrence of Macrocystis pyrifera and Durvillaea antarctica rafts on the southwestern warm temperate coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Our results indicate that an extreme...