Sea otter recovery buffers century-scale declines in California kelp forests

• Teri E. Nicholson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tnicholson@mbayaq.org (TEN); kyle.vanhoutan@gmail.com (KSVH)

  Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California, United States of America

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• Loren McClenachan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of History & School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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• Kisei R. Tanaka,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California, United States of America

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• Kyle S. Van Houtan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tnicholson@mbayaq.org (TEN); kyle.vanhoutan@gmail.com (KSVH)

  Affiliations Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California, United States of America, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5725-1773

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