The impacts of climate change on ecosystems are highly uncertain but potentially profound.
One such impact may be the emergence of extensive mats of seaweed (macroalgae), due to …

Insufficient attention to the large volumes of wastewater produced by expansive tourism and
urban development in the north of the Mexican Caribbean has increased concerns on the …

Macroalgae, as well as carbonaceous materials prepared from them, offer several promising
avenues for pollution control and environmental remediation purposes. Such macroalgae …

Abstract The conservation of Mexican Caribbean Ecosystems (MCE) involves ensuring their
capacity to provide resources and ecosystem services to society. Monitoring programs are …

A cost-effective particle-tracking model was implemented to study the transport and landing
of sargassum in the Mexican Caribbean. Sensitivity analyses were performed to quantify the …

Since 2011, large influxes of a brown macroalgae (pelagic sargassum seaweed) have
proliferated across the Tropical Atlantic basin, its dispersal and seasonality theorized to be …

For much of the Caribbean region, plastic pollution and the persistence of the great Atlantic
Sargassum belt lead to significant regional loss in biodiversity, employment and tourism …

The bloom of pelagic Sargassum in the Atlantic Ocean has become increasingly
problematic, especially when the algae have beached. A build-up of decaying beached …

Marine-derived macrophytes primarily compose beach-cast sea wrack that can be used by
terrestrial invertebrate fauna in sandy beach system. Since 2011, the inundations of pelagic …

The spring of 2023 brought headlines about “giant blobs of seaweed” 1—a brown alga
called Sargassum—hitting Atlantic Ocean beaches from Florida through the Caribbean and …