Seaweeds have a long history of use as food, as flavouring agents, and find use in
traditional folk medicine. Seaweed products range from food, feed, and dietary supplements …

Marine ecosystem services are in global decline, which requires new transformational
changes in governance to cope with multiple anthropogenic stressors. We perform a …

Macroalgae-based products are increasing in demand also in Europe. In the European
Union, each category of macroalgae-based products is regulated separately. We discuss EU …

Abstract The European, Canadian, and Latin American seaweed industries rely on the
sustainable harvesting of natural resources. As several countries wish to increase their …

Alginates are produced industrially from marine macroalgae (also called seaweeds)
belonging to the taxonomic group of brown algae (phylum Ochrophyta, class …

Kelp beds, besides being one of the most important benthic resources in northern Chile,
provide a variety of environmental goods and services. In order to evaluate economically the …

Kelp forests line a quarter of the world's coastlines and provide diverse ecosystem services.
While kelps are a harvested resource themselves, they are also foundation species that form …

Kelp cultivation started in Japan, China and Korea, mainly for human consumption; new
applications are still expanding. In Chile, three 'wild'Lessonia species and Macrocystis …

Abstract Background Marine macroalgae ('seaweeds') are a diverse and globally distributed
group of photosynthetic organisms that together generate considerable primary productivity …

Lessonia (order Laminariales) is a kelp genus restricted to the temperate southern
hemisphere, where species form dense forests from the low intertidal to 25 m depth at wave …