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Macroalgae
• Bare surface -> Bacteria -> filamentous algae -> 'fleshy' seaweeds (->
seagrasses).
• Conspicuous zonation (species according climate).
- Intertidal: exposure to air conditions towards high
tide: desiccation, temperature & salinity variations!
- Subtidal: wave action & light (quality and quantity);
down to depth with enough light for photosynthesis.
Dike at Pointe de la Crèche, Boulogne (N France): Verrucaria maura (blackish lichen),
Blidingia minima (light green), Porphyra umbilicalis (brownish purple), Ulva
compressa (dark green), Fucus spiralis (blackish brown), on the bottom: many Ulva.
Zonation in the Mediterranean Sea: intertidal with Rissoella verruculosa,
Lithophyllum tortuosum, Cystoseira mediterranea.
Succession; zonation; niche diversity
Bare surface -> Bacteria -> filamentous algae -> 'fleshy' seaweeds (->
seagrasses).
• Conspicuous zonation (species according climate).
• Intertidal: exposure to air conditions towards high tide: desiccation,
temperature & salinity variations!
• Subtidal: wave action & light (quality and quantity); down to depth with
enough light for photosynthesis
• Geographic distribution: 5 marine phytogeographical
zones (upper and lower boreal, temperate, subtropical
and tropical) defined by critical temperatures:
- min temperature for survival;
- min temperature for repopulation;
- max temperature for repopulation;
- max temperature for survival.
Succession; zonation; niche diversity
• Bare surface -> Bacteria -> filamentous algae -> 'fleshy' seaweeds (->
seagrasses).
• Conspicuous zonation (species according climate).
• Intertidal: exposure to air conditions towards high tide: desiccation,
temperature & salinity variations!
• Subtidal: wave action & light (quality and quantity); down to depth with
enough light for photosynthesis
• Geographic distribution: 5 marine phytogeographical zones:
- min temperature for survival;
- min temperature for repopulation;
- max temperature for repopulation;
- max temperature for survival.
• Cosmopolitan species (??!! >< molecular data ->
numerous sibling species). Patchiness!! Disjunct
distribution.
Research along the East African coast
New records
update of floristic knowledge
48 species new to Kenya and Tanzania
Example
Dictyota adnata Zanardini
type locality: Irian Jaya (Indonesia)
New: East Africa
Coppejans (1990)
Gibsmithia hawaiiensis
type locality: Hawaii
known from Australië
new: East Africa, South Africa
Seychelles
subtidal
New species
Vanvoorstia incipiens
intertidal
1 location: Uroa, Zanzibar