Plastics and other artificial materials pose new risks to health of the ocean. Anthropogenic
debris travels across large distances and is ubiquitous in the water and on the shorelines …

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) produce local impacts in nearly all freshwater and marine
systems. They are a problem that occurs globally requiring an integrated and coordinated …

Pelagic Sargassum is abundant in the Sargasso Sea, but a recurrent great Atlantic
Sargassum belt (GASB) has been observed in satellite imagery since 2011, often extending …

Starting in 2011, coastal areas of the Caribbean Sea and tropical Atlantic Ocean began to
experience extraordinary yearly accumulations of pelagic Sargassum brown alga. Historical …

Massive strandings of the pelagic brown algae Sargassum have occurred in the Caribbean,
and to a lesser extent, in western Africa, almost every year since 2011. These events have …

In the last decade, unprecedented arrivals of pelagic Sargassum (Sargassum influx) have
been reported for the Caribbean coasts causing severe ecological and economical …

Abstract Pelagic Sargassum in the Atlantic Ocean is an important habitat for marine animals,
yet frequent and massive beaching events around the Caribbean Sea have caused many …

In coastal waters around the world, the dominant primary producers are benthic
macrophytes, including seagrasses and macroalgae, that provide habitat structure and food …

The recent proliferation of pelagic Sargassum spp. in the Tropical Atlantic causes major
ecological and socioeconomic impacts to the wider Caribbean when it washes ashore, with …

The oceanographic ecology of pelagic Sargassum, and the means by which these floating
macroalgae thrive in the nutrient-poor waters of the open ocean, have been studied for …