{"id":1591,"date":"2020-12-21T20:57:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T20:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceansofbiodiversity.blogs.auckland.ac.nz\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2024-12-06T09:23:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T08:23:16","slug":"world-map-of-the-kelp-biome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/2020\/12\/21\/world-map-of-the-kelp-biome\/","title":{"rendered":"World map of the kelp biome updated"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first world map of the laminarian kelp biome has been published (Jayathilake and Costello (2020).\u00a0 It estimates the kelp biome to occupy 1,469,900 km2<\/sup> and be present on 22 % of the world\u2019s coastline. It is thus the second most widely distributed marine biome, following seagrass with 1,646,788 km2<\/sup> (Jayathilake and Costello 2018).
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\nThe map was modelled based on the over 44,000 field observations in the map below.
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\nThe map has contributed to a world map of marine biodiversity<\/a> that included species richness, endemicity, ecosystems and biomes (Zhao et al. 2020), that has won an award for its potential contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>.
\nThe map is included in the WCMC UNEP Ocean Data Viewer<\/a> platform. The short link for the data pack download is here<\/a>.
\nThe map has been updated with new data from the Arctic. The kelp biome is now 2 million km2 and the largest marine biome. It was profiled in Science: \"\"<\/a>
\nReferences<\/strong><\/span>
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\nJayathilake D.R.M., Costello MJ. 2018. A modelled global distribution of the seagrass biome. Biological Conservation<\/em> 226, 120-126. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.biocon.2018.07.009<\/a>
\nJayathilake D.R.M., Costello MJ. 2020. A modelled global distribution of the kelp biome. Biological Conservation<\/em> 252, 108815. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.biocon.2020.108815<\/a>
\nJayathilake D.R.M., Costello M.J. 2021. Version 2 of the world map of laminarian kelp benefits from more Arctic data and makes it the largest marine biome. Biological Conservation <\/em>online. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.biocon.2021.109099
\nZhao Q, Stephenson F, Lundquist C, Kaschner K, Jayathilake DRM, Costello MJ. 2020. Where Marine Protected Areas would best represent 30% of ocean biodiversity. Biological Conservation<\/em> 244, 108536. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.biocon.2020.108536<\/a>
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The first world map of the laminarian kelp biome has been published (Jayathilake and Costello (2020).\u00a0 It estimates the kelp biome to occupy 1,469,900 km2 and be present on 22 % of the world\u2019s coastline. It is thus the second most widely distributed marine biome, following seagrass with 1,646,788 km2 (Jayathilake and Costello 2018). The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":1598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5,6,8],"tags":[],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-science-related-posts","category-news","category-publication","category-resource"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}