Does anyone know a dataset of global kelp distirbution for download? (i.e. a global kelp map e.g. as shapefile)?

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Andreas Kunzmann

Dear Nils, may I suggest that you contact

[email protected]

Philipp is modelling in his PhD thesis (however mainly red algae). I could imagine that he knows about this kind of shape files

Cheers

Andreas

Philipp suggest to look here: https://www.gbif.org/.

Riley A. Pollom

I'm not sure where you can find this shapefile, but it's likely the authors of the attached 2016 paper "Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century" will have one. See Figure 1A.

http://www.pnas.org/content/113/48/13785.full