Potential negative effects of ocean afforestation on offshore ecosystems

PW Boyd, LT Bach, CL Hurd, E Paine… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Our scientific understanding of climate change makes clear the necessity for both emission
reduction and carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The ocean with its large surface area, great …

Forecasting seasonal sargassum events across the tropical Atlantic: overview and challenges

R Marsh, HA Oxenford, SAL Cox… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Proliferation of sargassum across the tropical Atlantic since 2011 has motivated a range of
forecasting methods. Statistical methods based on basin-scale satellite data are used to …

Shift in algal blooms from micro‐to macroalgae around China with increasing eutrophication and climate change

Y Feng, Y Xiong, JM Hall‐Spencer, K Liu… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Blooms of microalgal red tides and macroalgae (eg, green and golden tides caused by Ulva
and Sargassum) have caused widespread problems around China in recent years, but there …

Nutrient and arsenic biogeochemistry of Sargassum in the western Atlantic

DJ McGillicuddy Jr, PL Morton, RA Brewton… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The oceanographic ecology of pelagic Sargassum, and the means by which these floating
macroalgae thrive in the nutrient-poor waters of the open ocean, have been studied for …

Challenges of turning the Sargassum crisis into gold: current constraints and implications for the Caribbean

HA Oxenford, SA Cox, BI van Tussenbroek… - Phycology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the last decade, the Caribbean has seen massive, episodic influxes of pelagic
sargassum negatively impacting coastal ecosystems, people's livelihoods and climate …

Sargasso Sea Vibrio bacteria: Underexplored potential pathovars in a perturbed habitat

TJ Mincer, RP Bos, ER Zettler, S Zhao, AA Asbun… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
We fully sequenced the genomes of 16 Vibrio cultivars isolated from eel larvae, plastic
marine debris (PMD), the pelagic brown macroalga Sargassum, and seawater samples …

Seasonal variation in morphotype composition of pelagic Sargassum influx events is linked to oceanic origin

KST Alleyne, D Johnson, F Neat, HA Oxenford… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The recent proliferation of pelagic Sargassum spp. in the Tropical Atlantic causes major
ecological and socioeconomic impacts to the wider Caribbean when it washes ashore, with …

Climate and anthropogenic controls of seaweed expansions in the East China Sea and Yellow Sea

L Qi, C Hu, BB Barnes, BE Lapointe… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Blooms of various types of seaweeds have been reported worldwide, with recent
expansions in surface waters. While most of the expansions have been attributed to …

[HTML][HTML] Pelagic Sargassum events in Jamaica: Provenance, morphotype abundance, and influence of sample processing on biochemical composition of the biomass

CB Machado, GM Maddix, P Francis, SL Thomas… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pelagic Sargassum species have been known for centuries in the Sargasso Sea of the North
Atlantic Ocean. In 2011, a new area concentrating high biomass of these brown algae …

Growth rates of pelagic Sargassum species in the Mexican Caribbean

E Magaña-Gallegos, M García-Sánchez, C Graham… - Aquatic Botany, 2023 - Elsevier
The recent recurring blooms of pelagic Sargassum spp.(sargasso) in the tropical Atlantic
forming the Great Atlantic Sargasso Belt, are composed of distinct algal species and …