https://padlet.com/williamhughes/8y0s7ehr2gne Made with ♥ en-us 2020-03-24 16:19:53 UTC 2025-10-05 03:00:20 UTC hello@padlet.com williamhughes https://padlet.com/williamhughes/8y0s7ehr2gne/wish/473093046 The environment of kelp forests is high. Serving as a refuge from larger predators and as a food source means that everything from kelp bass to sea urchins live there. The wide range of animals helps make this ecosystem diverse. Diversity in an ecosystem is very important and comes in different types: genetic diversity, species diversity, and ecosystem diversity. Kelp forests are located ( insert location) with climates of (insert climates). One of the animals living in this environment is the keystone Sea Otter, which is sadly becoming endangered. ]]> 2020-03-24 16:22:51 UTC https://padlet.com/williamhughes/8y0s7ehr2gne/wish/473093046 williamhughes https://padlet.com/williamhughes/8y0s7ehr2gne/wish/473101690 Sea Otters are a keystone species of kelp forests. Found in a tiny group off a highway in 1938, they soon became used to help regulate sea urchins, saving kelp forests and holding the ecosystem together. Sea otters are declining due to (reason for population decline). Currently, there are (current population number) in the world. Since the sea otters are declining, it has also affected other species, such as (insert another species affected). (If any species has become extinct due to the decrease of sea otters, insert here). The loss of sea otters has affect the kelp forests (insert reason). ]]> 2020-03-24 16:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/williamhughes/8y0s7ehr2gne/wish/473101690 williamhughes https://padlet.com/williamhughes/8y0s7ehr2gne/wish/473110094 There was a significant decline in sea otter populations from the 1960s to the mid-1990s with about (insert number). Due to this, some ecosystems became temporarily unstable leading to urchin wastes and various other problems. Some of the problems were (give the problems). ]]> 2020-03-24 16:31:28 UTC https://padlet.com/williamhughes/8y0s7ehr2gne/wish/473110094 williamhughes https://padlet.com/williamhughes/8y0s7ehr2gne/wish/473122344 Since we don't know this information we can't model this because we have no data from that time. Though, there are estimated recovery rates that can give us an idea of the expected population increase and time frame in which that may happen.anyways I still need a picture below, so I guess I'm going for cute and praying that you'll pity me... ]]> 2020-03-24 16:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/williamhughes/8y0s7ehr2gne/wish/473122344 williamhughes https://padlet.com/williamhughes/8y0s7ehr2gne/wish/473130195 The proposed solution is to just dump them in kelp forests where sea urchin regulation is necessary, and... it's working. The sea otter populations have been slowly rising in many areas. With the rise of sea otter populations, it will also affect the other species (how it'll affect them). Finely something I can show you data for.  ]]> 2020-03-24 16:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/williamhughes/8y0s7ehr2gne/wish/473130195 williamhughes https://padlet.com/williamhughes/8y0s7ehr2gne/wish/473146045 This is unknown though scientists estimate that (research estimated comeback). with the new virus, and the fact that it's way down on the priority list... well, they just aren't a  priority right now.]]> 2020-03-24 16:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/williamhughes/8y0s7ehr2gne/wish/473146045 williamhughes https://padlet.com/williamhughes/8y0s7ehr2gne/wish/473166662 https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20170525111526/http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1957/6719/Jameson_Ronald_J_ocr.pdf?sequence=1

https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/84/1/55/2373591

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