There are many animals that like to eat kelp, but the main ones include sea urchins, shrimps, snails, etc. These animals often eat kelp. These animals live primarily in kelp forests, as kelp not only provides food but also protects them from predators. Give these sea creatures a great refuge.
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Geographical distribution of kelp:
1 "Kelp belongs to subarctic algae and is a unique local species in the North Pacific. There are also some kelp distributed in the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the kelp is distributed in the northern hemisphere, while a small amount is also distributed in the southern hemisphere. It usually grows on seabed rocks in the subtidal zone. The growth of kelp is mainly affected by factors such as temperature, light, nutrients, and plant hormones.
2. The Pacific Northwest is a concentrated growth area of ??kelp. Most of the world's kelp species are distributed here. Among them, the kelp with the greatest economic value is distributed along the western coast of the Tatar Strait of Russia and Peter the Great. Bay and coastal sea areas such as Hokkaido, Japan.
3. After introduction, Rishiri kelp is widely distributed in the eastern coastal waters and southern coastal waters of South Korea, and is also widely distributed in the coastal waters of China's Liaodong Peninsula and Shandong Peninsula; Rishiri kelp is also called the Sea of ??Okhotsk Kelp or Oho kelp, it is widely distributed in the Kuril Islands of Russia and Hokkaido, Japan.
Curly kelp (also known as chicory kelp) is widely distributed in Peter the Great Bay, Russia and Hokkaido, Japan; long kelp is widely distributed in the Kuril Islands of Russia and Hokkaido, Japan. At the same time, the two places are also specialty areas of this kelp. The latitudinal positions of Japan and Russia determine the diversity of naturally distributed kelp species, so both countries are major producers of natural kelp.
Morphological characteristics:
The algal body is a long flat leaf-like body, brown-green, with two longitudinal grooves running through the middle of the leaf, forming a middle zone, generally 1.5-3m long. Width 15-25cm, the longest can reach 6m, and the width can reach 50cm.