Kelp counts and bottom cover estimates obtained by SCUBA at shallow nearshore sites along the north Pacific Rim from Bering Island to Southeast Alaska during 1987-2021
The data consist of counts of kelps and estimated percent cover of fleshy red algae, other benthic algal cover, and non-motile invertebrates in quadrats from over 600 nearshore rocky bottom sites that were sampled by scuba between 1987 and 2021. The sites are from 38 locations on the north Pacific Rim ranging from …