Seaweed is a name given to various algae and marine plants growing in oceans, lakes, rivers, and other water bodies. It’s known by other names like sea vegetables, algae, kelp, and gulfweed. Typically, seaweed is divided into three groups depending on its pigmentation:

Notable species include Halymenia, composed of large, flat blades (large pink seaweed, center); Gracilaria blodgettii, a cylindrical species (largest is in right foreground); Kallyemia westii, a pale pink species with perforated blades (extreme foreground, just left of center); and Coelarthrum cliftonii (whitish seaweed at top, just left of ...

Various studies have shown that seaweeds have developed a variety of strategies to minimize the damages inflicted by herbivores like sea urchins and other grazers. These methods includ chemical and structural/morphologic defenses, or occurrence in …

Bonaire is home to over 250 diferent species of seaweed. These macroalgae can be found in a wide range of areas, from shallow reefs to deep within the mangrove forests. Nearly 60 of the most common species are featured on the “Common Seaweeds of Bonaire” ID Cards.

2024年12月26日 · Seaweed, any of the red, green, or brown marine algae that grows along seashores. Seaweeds are generally anchored to the sea bottom or other solid structures by rootlike ‘holdfasts,’ which perform the sole function of attachment and do not extract nutrients as do the roots of higher plants.

Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae. The term includes some types of Rhodophyta (red), Phaeophyta (brown) and Chlorophyta (green) macroalgae.

Most people know two general categories of seaweeds: wracks (species of the brown algal order Fucales such as Fucus) and kelps (species of the brown algal order Laminariales such as Laminaria), and many of you have heard of Carrageen or Irish Moss (usually the red alga, Chondrus crispus) and Dulse or Dillisk (also a red alga, Palmaria palmata).

Sea grasses are grass-like fowering plants that live completely submerged in marine and estuary waters. Sea grasses occur in protected bays and lagoons and also in deeper waters along the continental shelf of Florida. Elongated, cylindrical leaves. Similar to spaghetti. Elongated, fat blade leaves. Similar to fettuccini pasta.

2024年6月4日 · Since 2011, vast mats of sargassum seaweed have been washing up on Caribbean islands. On shore, they pile up into a dead and stinky mass. (1) Sargassum rafts from a vast bloom known as the sargassum belt are transported to shore by ocean currents. (2) Free-floating sargassum provides food and habitat.

2022年3月17日 · Here are 10 types of seaweed you should know. We'll start off with an easy one. Even if you think you don't know nori, you do: it's the sushi seaweed. Nori is the thin, dark-colored seaweed that...