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BOTANICA MARINA
Volume 57, Issue 4, Pages 337-341Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/bot-2013-0122
Keywords
macroalgal bloom; overwintering; propagules; Ulva
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- University of Rhode Island Undergraduate Research Initiative
- Stan Cobb Endowment for Marine Biology
- National Science Foundation EPSCoR [EPS-1004057]
- State of Rhode Island
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Temperate coastal estuaries worldwide, such as Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, are influenced by seasonal macroalgal blooms (e.g., Ulva) during warm months, whereas bloom-forming macroalgae are rarely encountered during winter. We assessed the ability of distromatic Ulva to overwinter through fragments, recruits, and/or microscopic propagules. We documented (a) small tissue fragments in sediment cores and the water column, (b) recruits and microscopic propagules on field-based settlement tiles, and (c) production of reproductive propagules, throughout the winter months. Laboratory culturing experiments indicated that both fragments and propagules are viable. Our data indicate that bloom-forming overwintering Ulva simultaneously use multiple reproductive strategies.
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