[PDF] Fourteenth International Seaweed Symposium eBook

Author : A.R.O. Chapman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401119988

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Industrial seaweed use started in Brittany in the XVII century. Today, 700 species have been identified along 1000 km of shoreline, producing 10 million tons of biomass. In the Fourteenth International Seaweed Sumposium the latest developments in the area are discussed. The blending of molecular biology with traditional taxonomy is improving our understanding of phylogeny and species relationships among many of the important algae. A new generation of biologically-based management models is gradually incorporating field testing, concepts from ecological theory and principles from population biology. Prediction is being improved, and an appropriate balance is being struck between commercial exploitation and the preservation of wild seaweed resources. Cell and tissue culture of seaweeds is entering the mass-production phase. Field farming is now entering the large-scale production area. New, biologically active compounds are being described, obtained from algae, and new tools for the characterisation of phytocolloids are described. Microalgal blooms and toxins are also experiencing a flourish of new results.

Author : Joanna M. Kain
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780792359326

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International Seaweed Symposia have been held at three-year intervals for nearly 50 years. In the early days they formed the only international forum for marine phycologists, and although there are now frequent phycological meetings their value has not diminished, both because of the increased commercial importance of seaweeds, and because of the unique mix of disciplines that the meetings attract. Industrialists interact with chemists and biologists with the common aim of understanding seaweeds. The main development during the last few decades has been an increase in the cultivation of algae, as natural stocks of the useful species become depleted. Of the first ten Symposia, nine were held in western countries where seaweed cultivation is almost non-existent. It is appropriate that the last two have been held where algal exploitation is relatively big business.

Author : Sandra C. Lindstrom
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400916590

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This volume provides a selection of the most significant papers presented at the 15th International Seaweed Symposium in Valdivia, Chile, in January 1995. Plenary lectures featured seaweed research and utilization in Chile by Bernabé Santelices, ethnobotany of seaweeds by Isabella Abbott, host-virus interactions in marine brown algae by Dieter Müller, DNA analysis methods for recognizing species invasion by Annette Coleman, and recent developments in manufacturing and marketing carrageenan by Harris Bixler. Other highlights include sections on integrated aquaculture using seaweeds and marine invertebrates or fishes and on diseases in seaweeds. The remaining papers cover recent advances in floristics and systematics, population studies, pollution, cultivation, economics, physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, and chemistry and chemical composition of seaweeds, particularly species of Gracilariales, Gigartinales, Gelidiales, Laminariales and Fucales.

Author : Mark A. Ragan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400940572

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Proceedings of the Twelfth International Seaweed Symposium, held in São Paulo, Brazil, July 27-August, 1986.

Author : E. Gordon Young
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1483165523

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Proceedings of the Fifth International Seaweed Symposium, Halifax, August 25–28, 1965