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Eukaryota > Stramenopiles > Phaeophyta > Kelp
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Saline Waters > Seawater > Oceans and Seas > Aquatic Organisms > Seaweed > Kelp
... > Environment and Public Health > Environment > Saline Waters > Seawater > Oceans and Seas > Aquatic Organisms > Seaweed > Kelp
Geographic Locations > Oceans and Seas > Aquatic Organisms > Seaweed > Kelp
... > Physical Phenomena > Geological Phenomena > Oceans and Seas > Aquatic Organisms > Seaweed > Kelp
Organism Forms > Aquatic Organisms > Seaweed > Kelp

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Kelp  

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  • Large, robust forms of brown algae (PHAEOPHYCEAE) in the order Laminariales. They are a major component of the lower intertidal and sublittoral zones on rocky coasts in temperate and polar waters. Kelp, a kind of SEAWEED, usually refers to species in the genera LAMINARIA or MACROCYSTIS, but the term may also be used for species in FUCUS or Nereocystis.

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-LN5ZNZ6Q-P

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