Physiological ecology and seasonality of Ulva pertusa on a temperate rocky shore

Green tide formed by free-floating Ulva spp. at Yatsu tidal flat, Japan

“…The same probably applies to that in 1999. The second feature of the green tide at Yatsu tidal flat is that it was not induced by eutrophication of the seawater, as has been reported for green tides worldwide (Fletcher 1996;Anderson et al 1996;Hernández et al 1997;Notoya 1999;Taylor et al 2001;Nelson et al 2003;Kim et al 2004;Nelson et al 2008). The nutrient concentrations in Yatsu tidal flat have still remained at levels sufficient for the bloom of the green tide (Steffensen 1976;Maegawa 1999;Ishii et al 2001a, b) after the development of public sewerage systems.…”

“…First, we detected a summer decline of the green tide in 1999. A summer decline of Ulva biomass has often been reported around the world (Sfriso et al 1987;Sfriso and Marcomini 1996;Hernández et al 1997;De-Casabianca et al 2002;Kim et al 2004;Uchimura et al 2004), and the most common reason for the decline is temperatures too high for growth. The same probably applies to that in 1999.…”

“…' Ohno (1999) proposed that green tide should be used in a more limited sense to describe the bloom and accumulation only of Ulva species. The blooms of attached ulvoids have been found in intertidal (Uchimura et al 2004) and eulittoral (Kim et al 2004) rocky substrata, whereas the blooms of free-floating ulvoids have been mostly reported in intertidal muddy and sandy flats. The blooms of ulvoids reduce the yields of useful marine products (Hernández et al 1997) and affect seagrass beds mainly through shading (Den Hartog 1994; Short et al 1995;Sugimoto et al 2007).…”

Mitochondrial genomes of the green macroalga Ulva pertusa (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta): novel insights into the evolution of mitogenomes in the Ulvophyceae

“…, Kim et al. ). This species has been identified as an invasive alga along the Mediterranean and European coasts (Verlaque et al.…”

A screening procedure for the solubilization of chloroplast membrane proteins from the marine green macroalga Ulva lactuca using RP–HPLC–MALDI-MS

“…Most alga studies have been done on the genetically mapped Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [3,4], a unicellular green alga related to the green macroalgae genera Ulva. Concerning research such as physiological measurements [5][6][7] and environmental studies [8] on green macroalgae, species of Ulva are often used. The physiological responses first studied in Ulva are believed to be linked to particular membrane proteins [9].…”