The use of invasive algae species as a source of secondary metabolites and biological activities: Spain as case-study

AG Pereira, M Fraga-Corral, P Garcia-Oliveira… - Marine Drugs, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
In the recent decades, algae have proven to be a source of different bioactive compounds
with biological activities, which has increased the potential application of these organisms in …

A review of three decades of research on the invasive kelp Undaria pinnatifida in Australasia: An assessment of its success, impacts and status as one of the world's …

PM South, O Floerl, BM Forrest, MS Thomsen - Marine Environmental …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Marine invasive macroalgae can have severe local-scale impacts on ecological
communities. The kelp Undaria pinnatifida is one of the most successful marine invasive …

[HTML][HTML] Polar Lipids Composition, Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of the Atlantic Red Seaweed Grateloupia turuturu

E da Costa, T Melo, M Reis, P Domingues, R Calado… - Marine drugs, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Grateloupia turuturu Yamada, 1941, is a red seaweed widely used for food in Japan and
Korea which was recorded on the Atlantic Coast of Europe about twenty years ago. This …

The seaweed resources of Portugal

R Gaspar, L Pereira, I Sousa-Pinto - Botanica Marina, 2019‏ - degruyter.com
Continental Portugal and its two archipelagos (Azores Islands and Madeira Islands) present
a very interesting and diverse seaweed community. Its great diversity results for example …

[HTML][HTML] Extraction and Analysis of Compounds with Antibacterial Potential from the Red Alga Grateloupia turuturu

I Cardoso, J Cotas, A Rodrigues, D Ferreira… - Journal of Marine …, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
Nowadays, the development of new drugs only relies on a small number of molecules and
50% of all existent drugs are extracted or synthetically obtained. This work intends to …

The ecological role of invading Undaria pinnatifida: an experimental test of the driver–passenger models

PM South, MS Thomsen - Marine Biology, 2016‏ - Springer
There have been dramatic increases in the frequency of invasions and distributions of
invaders worldwide, yet the ecological roles of invasive macroalgae are poorly understood …

Long-term data prove useful to keep track of non-indigenous seaweed fate

A Petrocelli, MA Wolf, K Sciuto, A Sfriso… - Frontiers in …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
The Mar Piccolo of Taranto (southern Italy, Mediterranean Sea), a site of the European LTER
network, is a transitional water system, where a century-old intensive mussel farming activity …

A few is enough: a low cover of a non-native seaweed reduces the resilience of Mediterranean macroalgal stands to disturbances of varying extent

F Bulleri, L Benedetti-Cecchi, G Ceccherelli… - Biological …, 2017‏ - Springer
There is increasing evidence that the severity of the ecological impact of non-native species
does not necessarily scale linearly with their abundance in the introduced range …

[HTML][HTML] Recent changes on the abundance and distribution of non-indigenous macroalgae along the southwest coast of the Bay of Biscay

D Carreira-Flores, M Rubal, J Moreira… - Aquatic Botany, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Twenty-three rocky shores along approximately 225 km on the southwest coast of the Bay of
Biscay were sampled during the springs of 2014 and 2021, to explore changes in the …

Fine-scale survey of intertidal macroalgae reveals recent changes in a cold-water biogeographic stronghold

C Monteiro, J Pereira, R Seabra… - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Global warming has been causing severe impacts on marine ecosystems, a notorious one
being shifts in the geographical ranges of species. The north-western coast of the Iberian …