Marine macrophytes are the foundation of algal forests and seagrass meadows–some of the
most productive and diverse coastal marine ecosystems on the planet. These ecosystems …

Seaweed population biology has received far less attention than trophic dynamics, yet is
critically important in establishing and maintaining algal communities. Complex life histories …

Phycology is the study of algae, the primary photosynthetic organisms in freshwater and
marine food chains. Since the publication of the first edition in 1981, this textbook has …

Intertidal seaweeds are periodically exposed to air where they experience a variety of
potentially stressful environmental conditions, including nutrient limitation, high light, high …

One of the most fundamental and precarious stages in the life history of a marine benthic
alga is the colonization of a new substratum. For the majority of algae this is achieved by the …

Four transitional life history stages are generally recognized for benthic marine algae. On
the basis of differences in size, we propose two more: young germlings and young juveniles …

Urbanization replaces natural shorelines with built infrastructure, seriously impacting
species living on these “new” shores. Understanding the ecology of developed shorelines …

Shifts in competitive balance between key functional groups may drive regime shifts in
tropical and temperate marine ecosystems. On shallow reefs, regime shifts increasingly …

Summary 1 Theory predicts that population structure and dynamics affect a population's
capacity for adaptation to environmental change. For isolated, small and fragmented …

Canopy-forming algae have been shown to play a fundamental role in the maintenance of
understorey assemblages on rocky shores. In the Mediterranean, low-shore habitats are …