New research shows how rapidly proliferating turf algae are waging 'chemical warfare' to inhibit the recovery of kelp forests along Maine's warming coast. As the ocean warms across its temperate ...
As kelp forests decline in the warming coastal waters of the Gulf of Maine, turf algae – dense mats of red algae replacing kelp in many regions – may chemically interfere with kelp recovery, a new ...
Ecosystems are characterized by interconnected structure and functions. A study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Casey Benkwitt at Lancaster University, United Kingdom and ...
The algal scrubber in action. Courtesy of Smithsonian Sidedoor Listen to this episode of Sidedoor, the Smithsonian podcast that explores behind-the-scenes stories from the Institution, for more ...
Turf algae coats the surface of a coral reef section near Moorea, French Polynesia in what could be a common look by century’s end. Marine ecologist Maggie Johnson, a recent PhD graduate from Scripps ...
Cayne Layton, Matthew J. Cameron, Victor Shelamoff, Pamela A. Fernández, Damon Britton, Catriona L. Hurd, Jeffrey T. Wright, Craig R. Johnson https://www.jstor.org ...
Researchers have found that ocean acidification limits algal communities to a state of low diversity and complexity. Communities grown in waters rich in carbon dioxide (CO2) were dominated by turf ...
The Algal Turf Scrubber (ATS) is one of the marine ecology field’s best-kept secrets. Invented by Smithsonian scientist Dr. Walter Adey in the 1980s, the ATS harvests algae from large bodies of water ...
Lead author, Shane Farrell, examines algae samples in the lab. Farrell spent several multiple months on a research visit with co-author Daniel Petras’s former lab at the University of Tübingen to ...
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