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Flying through an undersea ‘stained-glass window’

Cayne Layton dives into his work on restoring kelp forests in cold-water oceans.
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A researcher in SCUBA gear looks over a kelp farm.

Cayne Layton is a marine ecologist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart, Australia. Credit: Craig Johnson

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Here, I’m diving in one of 28 large artificial reefs at Maria Island, about halfway up the east coast of Tasmania. We built them out of metal framing and concrete paving stones spread across 1.5 hectares, and transplanted common kelp (Ecklonia radiata), a type of seaweed that grows to about one metre, into the reefs.

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Nature 586, 328 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02802-7

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