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Provedor de dados: | 17
País: | United Kingdom
Título: | A century of warfare shoots holes in anti-Caulerpa campaign
Autores: | John R. M. Chisholm; Pavel P. Povinec; Valerie Briet; Janine Gastaud; Jean M. Jaubert; Sang-Han Lee; Isabelle Levy-Palomo; Manuel Marchioretti; Audrey Minghelli-Roman.
Data: | 2007-10-18
Ano: | 2007
Palavras-chave: | Earth &amp; Environment.
Resumo: | Effort to have all varieties of the marine alga Caulerpa taxifolia listed as noxious weeds hinges on the argument that the alga&amp;#x27;s proliferation in the Mediterranean Sea is a cause and not a consequence of environmental degradation. Until now, the occurrence of two populations in a pristine part of the northern Mediterranean near the island of Porquerolles has upheld this claim. Here we show that the alga&amp;#x27;s development at Porquerolles is indeed a consequence of environmental degradation caused by military weapons&amp;#x27; impacts on seagrass beds during the last century. The available data show that substratum enrichment plays a key role in fostering development of Caulerpa, irrespective of whether this results directly from pollution or from the impacts of pollution and other anthropogenic factors on benthic vegetation cover.
Tipo: | Manuscript

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http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1240/version/1

oai:nature.com:10.1038/npre.2007.1240.1

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2007.1240.1

Fonte: | Nature Precedings
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