Crustose coralline algae (CCA) are important ecosystem engineers and carbonate
producers today and in the geological past. While there is an increasing number of …

Ocean acidification is predicted to cause profound shifts in many marine ecosystems by
impairing the ability of calcareous taxa to calcify and grow, and by influencing the photo …

Ocean Acidification (OA) arises from the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide
concentration following the industrial revolution. The ecological and socio-economic …

Algae mostly occur either as unicellular (microalgae) or multicellular (macroalgae) species,
both being uninucleate. There are important exceptions, however, as some unicellular algae …

Red coralline algae create abundant, spatially vast, reef ecosystems throughout our coastal
oceans with significant ecosystem service provision, but our understanding of their basic …

Ocean acidification (OA) is predicted to cause profound shifts in many marine ecosystems by
impairing the ability of calcareous taxa to calcify and grow and by influencing the physiology …

Globally, climate change affects reef ecosystems, causing community reconfigurations and
ecological impacts. Coralline rhodophyta are one of the reef groups most vulnerable to …

Non-geniculate coralline algae (NGCA), Corallinophycidae-Rhodophyta, are characterized
by prominent calcified vegetative thalli. They exhibit broad phenotypic plasticity, and …

Chitin and chitosan are versatile and valuable biomaterials, with chitosan being abundantly
found in the exoskeletons of crustaceans, insects, arthropods, and mollusks. The chemical …

This special issue was initially conceived during a council meeting of the International
Phycological Society in 2021, where the promotion of manuscript submissions focusing on …