Freakin Fucus – Guide to Intertidal Ecology and Seaweeds

Seaweed’s come in many different shapes and sizes varying from the microscopic seaweeds that encrust rocks on the sea shore to the huge mega kelps that can be many metres long.
Seaweeds need light to photosynthesise. This very important factor restricts seaweed to an area called the photic zone. This is the maximum depth that light [...]

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Let’s break it down, seaweeds are found in the sea and are weeds? That statement is about half right; they are found in the sea and are can occur on almost every sea shore, sometimes you can find them in deeper water where light can just about reach, but it doesn’t make them weeds.
Scientists call [...]

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