The arrival of a red invasive seaweed to a nutrient over-enriched estuary increases the spatial extent of macroalgal blooms.
Agarophyton vermiculophyllum
Gracilaria vermiculophylla
Invasion
Invasive seaweed
Macroalgal bloom
Satellite imagery
Journal
Marine environmental research
ISSN: 1879-0291
Titre abrégé: Mar Environ Res
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9882895
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2020
Jun 2020
Historique:
received:
09
12
2019
revised:
25
02
2020
accepted:
07
03
2020
pubmed:
7
4
2020
medline:
28
8
2020
entrez:
7
4
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The red seaweed Agarophyton vermiculophyllum is an invasive species native to the north-west Pacific, which has proliferated in temperate estuaries of Europe, North America and Africa. Combining molecular identification tools, historical satellite imagery and one-year seasonal monitoring of biomass and environmental conditions, the presence of A. vermiculophyllum was confirmed, and the invasion was assessed and reconstructed. The analysis of satellite imagery identified the first bloom in 2014 and revealed that A. vermiculophyllum is capable of thriving in areas, where native bloom-forming species cannot, increasing the size of blooms (ca. 10%). The high biomass found during the peak bloom (>2 kg m
Identifiants
pubmed: 32250838
pii: S0141-1136(19)30823-2
doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.104944
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
104944Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.