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PLANT AND ANIMAL SCIENCES
BY PETER D. MOORE
Department of Biology
King’s College London
London, U.K.
" Modern kelp distribution shows that their center of diversity is in the North Pacific. Animals that graze kelps appeared in the late Cenozoic but may have been suppressed in the North Pacific by predatory sea otters, allowing kelp diversification.
J.A. Estes, RD. Steinberg, “Predation, herbivory, and kelp evolution,” Paleobiology, 14 (1), 19-36, Winter 1988.
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