Seaweeds are receiving increasing attention as third generation biofuels, which do not compete for land or freshwater with agricultural crops and have a high polysaccharide …
The flow of detritus between habitats is an important form of connectivity that affects regional productivity and the spatial organization of marine ecosystems. Kelps form highly productive …
The largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in …
Aim Understanding the relative importance of climatic and non‐climatic distribution drivers for co‐occurring, functionally similar species is required to assess potential consequences of …
The giant kelp Macrocystis is the world's largest benthic organism and most widely distributed kelp taxon, serving as the foundation for diverse and energy-rich habitats that are …
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Rafting has been inferred as an important dispersal mechanism in the marine environment by many authors. The success of rafting depends critically on the availability of suitable …
Ocean warming (OW), ocean acidification (OA) and their interaction with local drivers, eg, copper pollution, may negatively affect macroalgae and their microscopic life stages. We …
Knowledge of long-term and multi-scale trends in ecological systems is a vital component in understanding their dynamics. We used Landsat satellite imagery to develop the first long …
Net primary production (NPP) is influenced by disturbance‐driven fluctuations in foliar standing crop (FSC) and resource‐driven fluctuations in rates of recruitment and growth, yet …