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Marine Macroalgae Archived Video

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 “Saltwater” the images of kelp at Race Rocks set to the music of Holly Arntzen.  The “Color of Kelp” .. a different view of the effects of sunlight transferred through kelp blades. epiphytes on Phyllospadix or surf grass at Race Rocks.  Epiphytes on Pterygophora californicus.
 Subtidal Lithothamnion with its typical community of invertebrates.

Marine Plants at Race Rocks form a valuable base of energy flow and habitat they offer other organisms. This file will have examples of single species as well as associations. The biology and environmental systems class projects and diver assistance the process of documentation of these species and habitats of Race Rocks is continuing. Video clips as well as links to other documentation are available here.

This file has links to other resources on Algae at Race Rocks.

 

 

 

Macroalgae at Race Rocks.

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There is great biodiversity in the Macroalgal species at Race Rocks . A herbarium of the species which have been found growing in the reserve is kept in the Biology and Marine Environmental Systems lab at Lester B. Pearson College. These students are floating a filamentous algal form onto a herbarium sheet in a tank of seawater. The algae are then dried between blotters in a drier with heat and circulating air.

Suggestion:Perhaps a student can digitize the herbarium sheets so we can see them posted here?

 

Refer to this file for archived video of Algae at Race Rocks

 

 

 

For a complete list of many of the species of  algae at Race Rocks scroll down to Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta and Phaeophyta in the Race Rocks taxonomy

 

Refer to this extended essay on Halosaccion glandiforme with a focus on position on the shore considering height and slope as factors in intertidal zonation

 

 

Ryan Murphy, former LBPC student returned to Race Rocks to do research for Mt.Allison University on the macroalgal community. He constructed this Digital Herbarium using photographs he took while at the reserve.