Halimeda is a tropical green seaweed. This species tends to inhabit the clear, warm waters of tropical areas. There are 30 species worldwid. Within these pages we’ll look at some of the interesting features of Halimeda, where it comes from? What is it? What effects it has on the surrounding environment? How does it combat [...]
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Ascophyllum nodosum
Posted in Featured on Apr 13th, 2008
Ascophyllum nodosum is closely related to the genus Fucus, and is believed to have derived from an ancestral species that belongs to the Fucus genus. Ascophyllum is the longest lived of all fucoids (~60 yrs; Aberg, 1992) this has implications of phycologists in studying the ecology and lifecycle of Ascophyllum nodosum due to large timescale [...]