SBC LTER : Reef: Macrocystis pyrifera frond morphology at Mohawk Reef

These data describe the morphology of actively growing, surface-canopy fronds of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera collected from the interior and edge of the kelp forest at Mohawk Reef near Santa Barbara, CA from May 2005 to April 2006. Included are values for the length, wet mass, stipe diameter, stipe mass, number of blades, and total blade mass of the midwater and canopy portion of each frond. These data were used by Stewart et al. (2009) to differences in growth, morphology and tissue C and N of M. pyrifera within and at the outer edge of a giant kelp forest.