As one moves north, Maine's kelp forests are being overtaken by dense mats of carpet-like turf algae. The steady decline of kelp and transition into this new state are altering the ecosystem all the way down to the microbial level, according to a new study in PNAS from Bigelow Laboratory for Oce...
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-08-loss-kelp-forests-reverberates-microbial.html)