Lengthy-term adjustments to kelp forests from ‘the blob’

The nearshore rocky reefs of the Santa Barbara Channel are dynamic locations, with populations of fish, mollusks, algae and different assorted sea life shifting in response to currents, storms and quite a lot of different circumstances. They wax and wane, usually returning to some form of baseline composition — a sort of normal demographic — after disturbances quickly disrupt the neighborhood, after which subside.