Sargassum

Envisat captures first image of Sargassum from space

Sargassum seaweed has been detected from space for the first time using optical radiance data from the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) aboard Envisat. The ability to monitor Sargassum globally will allow researchers to understand better the primary productivity of the ocean and be...

Batfish to the rescue!

...TV cameras. When the cage was removed from a particularly weedy patch, local herbivores pecked at it but made little impression on the dense growth of sargassum weed. "Then these batfish showed up and got stuck into it. In five days they had halved the amount of weed. In eight weeks it was completely gon...

Sargassum in Biological Definition

Marine biology

...nt life is relatively rare undersea, most of the niche occupied by plants on land is actually occupied by macroscopic algae in the ocean, such as sargassum and kelp . The plants that do survive in the sea are often found in shallow waters, such as the seagrasses (of which eelgrass, Zostera , and turtle...

Sargassum in other areas

Sargassum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sargassum is a genus of brown macroalga (seaweed) in the order Fucales. Numerous species are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world, where they generally inhabit shallow water and coral reefs....

sargassum: Definition from Answers.com

sargassum n. See gulfweed . [New Latin Sargassum , genus name, from SARGASSO. ... Any of the brown algae that make up the genus Sargassum. ...

issg Database: Ecology of Sargassum muticum

The Global Invasive Species Database contains invasive species information ... Sargassum muticum is a large brown seaweed that forms dense monospecific stands. ...

What is Sargassum?

Brief and Straightforward Guide: What is Sargassum? ... Sargassum is a large seaweed genus which prefers the open waters of the tropics, ...

Sargassum Symposium 2009 | Sargassum / Home Page

Check out the new Sargassum from Space webpage. edit. 29-30 April, 2009 ... WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL AND FINISH UP ON THURSDAY 30 APRIL AT 5. SARGASSUM SYMPOSIUM ...

FMP for Pelagic Sargassum Habitat

Sargassum. Sargassum is a free-floating seaweed found offshore in mats throughout the South ... company had been harvesting Sargassum for use in the feed ...