Julia Baum

And so the sea lettuce is a type of algae that is opportunistic.

It's kind of like a weed, and it can grow really fast.

And so it kind of saw this opportunity

open real estate on the rocky coastline and just spraying up really quickly.

And suddenly, instead of having this lush, biologically diverse seaweed community, we just had this green kind of spongy mop thing kind of all over the coastline, which is not what we want.

So, you know, it sounds like, oh, there were winners and losers.

Well, maybe on balance, that's sort of OK.

And that is absolutely not the case.

Yeah, I mean, I think they didn't, you know, so it didn't necessarily do well during the heat wave.

But in the month or two afterwards, it was able to.

increase and kind of capitalize on all the carnage that had happened around it during the heat wave.

And for some other species, we didn't see massive declines in some species.

So typically for

Mammals, big mammals and birds, we didn't find evidence that their populations had declined.

But I would say that that's more so a case of we don't actually have really good data to know what happened to them.

So for mammals, the only data that we have for mammals is what we call camera trap data.

So that's basically where wildlife biologists have cameras set up kind of all throughout the landscape.

And they take photos of whatever happens to be in front of the camera, you know, every minute.

And then you end up with tens of thousands of photos.

And so what we know from that is that.