Rodrigo Beas
I am developing a kelp forest ecological model to inform the placement of Marine Protected Areas in the Monterey Bay. MPAs are crucial in protecting marine resources and supporting a diversity of ecosystem services such as food production, flood and storm protection as well as ecotourism. My approaches will include several subtidal experiments to validate this model, implying a lot of cold water diving. More later...
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Supervisors: Mark Carr
Phone: (831) 459.1460
Address: Long Marine Lab
100 Shaffer Rd.
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
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en los últimos 400 000 años. Uno de los efectos de las altas concentraciones de CO2 en la atmósfera es
la acidificación del océano, la cual tiene efectos negativos sobre una gran variedad de organismos
marinos. Además de estos procesos atmosféricos, el pH en sistemas semicerrados como las lagunas
costeras, es afectado por factores biológicos locales. En este estudio se presenta la variabilidad en el pH
y su relación con la temperatura del agua en tres laguna costeras del condado de San Diego. Estas lagunas
costeras a pesar de encontrase geográficamente cerca, tienen diferentes características geomorfológicas
y diferentes presiones antropogénicas. Los resultados obtenidos sugieren que los efectos del cambio
climático también podrían ser diferentes en estas lagunas costeras.
Kelp forests provides ecosystem services to humans worth billions of dollars globally. These services include food and natural products, chemical products, recreational and commercial fisheries, ecotourism opportunities, cultural value, and nutrient cycling. Coastal human populations rely on many of these ecosystem services.
Beyond its economic benefits, giant kelp, together with the species that inhabit the kelp forests, play a significant role in climate control by regulating carbon flows, acting as a reserve and sink for carbon dioxide on living tissue, and facilitating the burial of carbon in sea bed sediments. Giant kelp and the biological communities that it supports will likely react to climatic and non-climatic changes in complex and unexpected ways.
In California and Baja California, giant kelp forests can be expected to contract in their southern extent due to warming waters, reductions in nutrient availability, increasing wave disturbance and grazing by warm-water herbivores. In ecosystems shared between nations, such as kelp forest, the actions taken by one nation invariably affect the other. Effective management of such systems therefore requires strong cooperation.
tools.
en los últimos 400 000 años. Uno de los efectos de las altas concentraciones de CO2 en la atmósfera es
la acidificación del océano, la cual tiene efectos negativos sobre una gran variedad de organismos
marinos. Además de estos procesos atmosféricos, el pH en sistemas semicerrados como las lagunas
costeras, es afectado por factores biológicos locales. En este estudio se presenta la variabilidad en el pH
y su relación con la temperatura del agua en tres laguna costeras del condado de San Diego. Estas lagunas
costeras a pesar de encontrase geográficamente cerca, tienen diferentes características geomorfológicas
y diferentes presiones antropogénicas. Los resultados obtenidos sugieren que los efectos del cambio
climático también podrían ser diferentes en estas lagunas costeras.
Kelp forests provides ecosystem services to humans worth billions of dollars globally. These services include food and natural products, chemical products, recreational and commercial fisheries, ecotourism opportunities, cultural value, and nutrient cycling. Coastal human populations rely on many of these ecosystem services.
Beyond its economic benefits, giant kelp, together with the species that inhabit the kelp forests, play a significant role in climate control by regulating carbon flows, acting as a reserve and sink for carbon dioxide on living tissue, and facilitating the burial of carbon in sea bed sediments. Giant kelp and the biological communities that it supports will likely react to climatic and non-climatic changes in complex and unexpected ways.
In California and Baja California, giant kelp forests can be expected to contract in their southern extent due to warming waters, reductions in nutrient availability, increasing wave disturbance and grazing by warm-water herbivores. In ecosystems shared between nations, such as kelp forest, the actions taken by one nation invariably affect the other. Effective management of such systems therefore requires strong cooperation.
tools.