Vienna Saccomanno

Local patterns of kelp canopy around Monterey Peninsula The cluster of five 10 x 10 km cells surrounding and to the south of the Monterey Peninsula showed some of the strongest declines across the time series (Figs 2A and 5C), low recovery from the marine heatwaves despite relatively high recovery across most of the Central California region (Fig 3), and low overall kelp canopy during and after the heatwave events compared to the historical mean (Fig 6).

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