loren paper Flashcards
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purpose (intro)
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- status of kelp forests and their vulnerability to climate change
- to understand long term kelp forest trends
- for ecosystem management
- climate resiliency
- restoration programs
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methods
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- curate historical US government kelp canopy inventories
- develop methods to help w contemporary surveys
- use machine learning framework to rank drivers of change (over the last 100 years)
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results
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kelp forests covered
1910-1912 = 120.4 km^2
2014-2016 = 112 km^2
regional changes:
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