他的计划是在海面上建立一种巨大的巨藻(一种海藻)“森林”。
His plan is to establish giant "forests" of kelp seaweed (a type of algae) at the surface of the ocean.
尽管已是季末,水中依然有大团巨藻。
Though it was late in the season, there were still tangles of bull kelp in the water.
一只年轻的海豹在南非干斯拜附近的巨藻丛中觅食。
A young Cape fur seal forages amid bull kelp near Gansbaai, South Africa.
大白鲨很少进入巨藻丛,而海豹把海藻当作避难所来逃避大白鲨血盆大口。
Great whites rarely enter kelp forests, and fur seals seek them out as refuges from their arch nemeses.
巨藻中蛋白质含量随水温的升高而相对下降,碘与纤维素的含量则以夏天为高。
The amount of protein content in giant kelp has been found to decrease as water temperature increases, while the iodine and cellulose contents increase in the summer.
这些巨藻会被收割并被放置到悬浮在海水里的塑料“胃”中——实质是巨大的塑料袋。
These would be harvested and placed into plastic "stomachs" - essentially large plastic bags - suspended in the sea.
因此北太平洋海獭的近乎绝灭,导致了海胆的大量繁殖,海胆随后毁掉了迄今维持着自身生态系统的巨藻林。
Thus the near extinction of sea otters in the northern Pacific led to a proliferation of sea urchins, which then laid waste an entire kelp forest that had hitherto sustained its own ecosystem.
因此北太平洋海獭的近乎绝灭,导致了海胆的大量繁殖,海胆随后毁掉了迄今维持着自身生态系统的巨藻林。
Thus the near extinction of sea otters in the northern Pacific led to a proliferation of sea urchins, which then laid waste an entire kelp forest that had hitherto sustained its own ecosystem.
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