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Kelp bed events in June:
By June, the kelp canopy has spread wide and lush, and a diverse (if transitory) community of animals is living on the kelp.
Adult kelp crabs migrate up into the kelp canopy, while young kelp crabs migrate to intertidal areas.
Three different species of top snails colonize different parts of the giant kelp, from the stipe to the canopy.
Brown turban snails spawn in the kelp canopy.
In June and July, large numbers of young kelp rockfish, black rockfish, gopher rockfish, black-and-yellow rockfish, and lingcod end their planktonic stage and settle out of the plankton and into the kelp beds and the understory algae.
Worms, isopods, and other animals living within kelp holdfasts reach maximum diversity; many species begin to spawn.
Life on the seafloor beneath the kelp beds becomes diverse but understory red algae begin to suffer from shading; some will die off entirely.
