The project provides crucial data on the forest's response to climate change, and gives people who are affected by regulations a role in creating the science that guides management decisions.
Research funded by NOAA SeaGrant describes major "flux events" in which the ocean food web that turns carbon from the atmosphere into solid carbon that settles on the sea floor.
Southern California estuaries at greater risk of closure during El Niño's high tides and from sea level rise, and will require unique management strategies.