Species List

A Selection of Study Species:

Sampling locations for species included in this canopy traits species list. Only species represented at more than three sampling locations are shown.

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Kelps -

Agarum clathratum

Typical shore zone:
Subtidal

Regions:
Gulf of Maine; Greenland

Credit - Richard Larocque

Alaria esculenta

Typical shore zone:
Lower shore to shallow subtidal

Regions:
Atlantic France; Ireland; Northern Scotland, Orkney; Gulf of Maine; Northern Norway; NE England

Credit - Erling Svenson

Alaria marginata

Typical shore zone:
Lower shore to shallow subtidal

Regions:
Canada

Credit - Brian Timmer & Julia K. Baum

Undaria pinnatifida

Typical shore zone:
Lower shore to shallow subtidal

Regions:
New Zealand; Southwest England; Northern Portugal, Japan

Credit - Shingo Akita

Costaria costata

Typical shore zone:
Lower shore to shallow subtidal

Regions:
Canada, Japan

Credit - Shingo Akita

Hedophyllum sessile

Typical shore zone:
Lower shore to shallow subtidal

Regions:
Canada

Credit - Brian Timmer & Julia K. Baum

Laminaria digitata

Typical shore zone:
Lower shore to shallow subtidal

Regions:
South Wales; Atlantic France; Ireland; Southwest England; NE England; Gulf of Maine; Norway; Iceland; Greenland.

Credit - iNaturalist user ipat

Laminaria hyperborea

Typical shore zone:
Subtidal

Regions:
South Wales; Atlantic France; Ireland; Southwest England; NE England; Northern Portugal; Norway; Iceland

Credit – John Griffin

Laminaria ochroleuca

Typical shore zone:
Lower shore to subtidal

Regions:
Atlantic France; Galicia, Spain; Southwest England; Northern Portugal

Credit - Svenja Heesch

Laminaria rodriguezii

Typical shore zone:
Subtidal, often deeper rocky reefs

Regions:
Balearic Islands; Catalan Coast

Credit - Dr. Kike Ballesteros

Macrocystis pyrifera

Typical shore zone:
Subtidal

Regions:
Alaska; Northern California; Central-South Peru; Chile; New Zealand; South Australia

Credit - Pat Webster

Nereocystis luetkeana

Typical shore zone:
Subtidal

Regions:
Victoria BC, Canada

Credit - Brian Timmer & Julia K. Baum

Saccharina japonica

Typical shore zone:
Lower shore to shallow subtidal

Regions:
Northern Japan / Hokkaido region

Credit - Shingo Akita

Saccharina latissima

Typical shore zone:
Lower shore to shallow subtidal

Regions:
Atlantic France; Southwest England; Gulf of Maine; St Lawrence; Greenland; Norway; Iceland; Northern Norway; Northern Portugal

Credit - Shane Farrell

Ecklonia radiata

Typical shore zone:
Lower shore to subtidal

Regions:
Eastern Australia, NSW; South Australia; Western Australia; Tasmania / southern Australia; New Zealand; Galway Bay

Credit - Dr John Turnbull

Lessonia trabeculata

Typical shore zone:
Subtital

Regions:
South America including Chile and Peru

Credit - Alejandro Pérez Matus

Fucoids -

Ascophyllum nodosum

Typical shore zone: Mid to lower shore, especially sheltered shores

Regions: South Wales; Atlantic France; Ireland; Norway; Iceland; Gulf of Maine; Greenland; Canada, New Brunswick; Northern Portugal; Sweden; Northern Norway; Northeast Iceland

Credit – Abrar Shakil

Fucus distichus

Typical shore zone:
Mid to lower shore, especially cold-temperate to sub-Arctic rocky shores

Regions:
Alaska; Northern California; Canada; Northeast Iceland

Credit - Brian Timmer & Julia K. Baum

Fucus distichus f. anceps

Typical shore zone:
Mid to lower shore, often cold or exposed rocky shores

Regions:
Northern Scotland, Orkney

Credit – Andrew Want

Fucus serratus

Typical shore zone: Lower shore

Regions: South Wales; Atlantic France; Ireland; Norway; Iceland; Northern Portugal; Sweden; sub-Arctic Northern Norway

Credit – Ruby Geroge

Fucus spiralis

Typical shore zone: Upper to mid shore

Regions: South Wales; Atlantic France; Galicia, Spain; Northern Portugal; Sweden; sub-Arctic Northern Norway; Northeast Iceland

Credit – David Fenwick