Environmental heterogeneity mediates scale-dependent declines in kelp diversity on intertidal rocky shores

• Samuel Starko ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Samuel Starko, Christopher J. Neufeld

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

  * E-mail: samuel.starko@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, British Columbia, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9604-9188

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• Lauren A. Bailey ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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• Elandra Creviston ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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• Katelyn A. James ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, British Columbia, Canada

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• Alison Warren ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biology, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

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• Megan K. Brophy ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, British Columbia, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5968-2147

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• Andreea Danasel ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Megan P. Fass ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• James A. Townsend ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Christopher J. Neufeld

  Contributed equally to this work with: Samuel Starko, Christopher J. Neufeld

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

  Affiliation Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, British Columbia, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6326-7998

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