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Nutrient uptake experiments

SeagConserve

Project Summary

The project explored the interspecific competition for nutrients between the invasive seaweed Caulerpa prolifera and the native seagrass Cymodocea nodosa in Ria Formosa, Portugal.

 

Cymodocea and Caulerpa in Ria Formosa

Project Activities

We examined the competition for inorganic and organic nitrogen between C. prolifera and C. nodosa through a series of nutrient surge uptake experiments combining single-species and mixed incubations.

Publications

 

Alexandre A, Santos R (2020) Competition for nitrogen between the seaweed Caulerpa prolifera

and the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa. Marine Ecology Progress Series 648: 125-134

https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13429

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