Seaweed Flora of the European North Atlantic and Mediterranean

Pereira, Leonel

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-53971-8_6

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“…Seaweeds are macroalgae, with high nutritional, nutraceutical, and medicinal properties (Cunha & Grenha, ; Hamed, Özogul, Özogul, & Regenstein, ; Ito & Hori, ; Kılınç, Cirik, Turan, Tekogul, & Koru, ; Mabeau & Fleurence, ; Pereira, ; Rupérez, Gómez‐Ordóñez, & Jiménez‐Escrig, ; Tanna & Mishra, ). Asian and European countries use seaweeds as fertilizers for agriculture, as well as thickening and gelling agents for industrial applications (Kılınç et al., ; Kraan, ).…”

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Nutraceutical Potential of Seaweed Polysaccharides: Structure, Bioactivity, Safety, and Toxicity

Tanna

Mishra

2019

Comp Rev Food Sci Food Safe

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In recent years, marine organisms including seaweeds have been highlighted as potential sources of useful metabolites and bioactive compounds, with vast biological and physiological activities. Seaweeds have long been used as a food source, for medicinal purposes, and as dietary supplements in various Asian countries, and their potential benefits have recently attracted the attention of many Western and European countries. Their commercial value depends on their applications in the food, nutraceutical, and pharmaceutical industries. Seaweeds are considered a potential source of nutraceuticals or functional foods, and analysis of taste‐oriented motives has revealed that seaweeds are preferentially selected over other types of marine foods by seafood consumers and people with high levels of health, education, and living status. It is a general perception that health conscious people prefer environmentally friendly food sources, and present an opportunity to focus on seaweed‐based foods, which have significant nutritional benefits to humans. Among the various bioactive constituents, seaweed polysaccharides have been proven to possess various beneficial properties including anticoagulant, anti‐inflammatory, antioxidant, anticarcinogenic, and antiviral activities. The diversity and composition of seaweed polysaccharides play vital roles in these biological activities. Seaweeds are a rich source of sulfated polysaccharides, which are responsible for much of the bioactivity, as they can interact with various textures and cellular proteins. A number of toxicological assays and clinical trials suggest that the ingestion of seaweeds as functional foods should be considered worldwide to improve immune responses. In this review, different polysaccharides from seaweeds and their compositions and potential nutraceutical applications are discussed.

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Nutraceutical Potential of Seaweed Polysaccharides: Structure, Bioactivity, Safety, and Toxicity

Tanna

Mishra

2019

Comp Rev Food Sci Food Safe

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“…No entanto, em Portugal, ao contrário dos países asiáticos como a China e o Japão, o seu consumo ainda é reduzido. Os géneros Undaria (wakame), Porphyra (nori) e Laminaria (kombu) são os mais consumidos em todo o mundo (Pereira, 2014). As algas são uma notável fonte de vitaminas, fibras dietéticas, minerais e proteínas (Lee et al, 2008).…”

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Vii Foro Iberoamericano De Los Recursos Marinos Y La Acuicultura

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Los objetivos del Foro Iberoamericano de los Recursos Marinos y la Acuicultura(FIRMA) siempre han constituido un reto para la organización en cualquier paísdonde se ha desarrollado, pero siempre un puñado de voluntades ha generadojunto con los participantes una ola académica llena de hermandad que haconllevado al éxito, el VII FIRMA Ecuador 2014, independientemente decualquier obstáculo, no ha sido la excepción, confirmando que es uno de loseventos más importantes en la Evaluación de los Recursos Marinos y laAcuicultura, y al menos único en su forma y objetivos.

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“…Macroalgae, also known as seaweeds, are primary producers of food and oxygen and are important to higher trophic levels (Pereira 2015). Sugar kelps (Saccharina latissima) thrive attached to reefs and rocks occupying the photic zone, from temperate to polar regions (Hurd et al 2014), in the North and Northeast Atlantic, from Portugal to Greenland including North and Baltic seas, Northwest Atlantic.…”

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“…Sugar kelps (Saccharina latissima) thrive attached to reefs and rocks occupying the photic zone, from temperate to polar regions (Hurd et al 2014), in the North and Northeast Atlantic, from Portugal to Greenland including North and Baltic seas, Northwest Atlantic. and Northeast Pacific (Pereira 2015). As one of the feedstocks of a valuable global industry, sugar kelps are utilized as human food, feed for fish aquaculture, and in animal husbandry, to produce bioenergy and fertilizers (Peteiro, S anchez, and Mart ınez 2016), and they contain a variety of compounds useful in the cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and food industries (Pereira 2015).…”

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“…and Northeast Pacific (Pereira 2015). As one of the feedstocks of a valuable global industry, sugar kelps are utilized as human food, feed for fish aquaculture, and in animal husbandry, to produce bioenergy and fertilizers (Peteiro, S anchez, and Mart ınez 2016), and they contain a variety of compounds useful in the cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and food industries (Pereira 2015). Furthermore, macroalgae cultivation presents distinct advantages compared to terrestrial biomass production: seaweed cultivation uses coastal areas thus it does not add to the competition for arable land, nor does it require fertilizers, fresh water, or other agricultural inputs such as pesticides (Hughes et al 2012).…”

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Identifying Suitable Sites for Macroalgae Cultivation on the Swedish West Coast

2019

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Special attention has been paid to sustainable macroalgae cultivation in Europe. The question on where suitable cultivation areas lie, without conflicting with current marine socio-economic activities and respecting the environment, remains a great challenge. Considering 13 criteria critical to seaweed farming such as depth, shipping traffic, and distance to ports, this paper aimed to identify suitable and sustainable offshore areas on the West Coast of Sweden for the cultivation of the Sugar Kelp, Saccharina latissima. An integrated approach with the tools geographic information systems (GIS) and multi-criteria analysis (MCA) was used to aggregate the criteria by means of Boolean and weighted linear combination (WLC) techniques. The Boolean method singled out 544 km 2 as suitable, whereas the WLC method indicated 475 km 2 as highly suitable. Both techniques complement each other in finding optimal sites. Furthermore, the integrated models excelled in providing an overview for effective spatial decision-making that fosters sustainable development of macroalgae cultivations within marine and coastal systems. HIGHLIGHTSTo the authors' knowledge no study on seaweed aquaculture site selection has been conducted using such a range of criteria with the purpose of including sustainability aspects within a comparative GIS-MCDA. The large areas identified on the West Coast of Sweden as suitable highlight the potential of this new industry and the complexity of associated marine spatial planning. Boolean and weighted linear combination methods were applied and compared, providing valuable insights in the selection of methods for spatial decision-making support. These insights should support a more sustainable development of macroalgae cultivation in the region, as well as a more resilient marine spatial planning process for blue growth strategies.

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Seaweed Flora of the European North Atlantic and Mediterranean

Cited by 44 publications

References 479 publications

Nutraceutical Potential of Seaweed Polysaccharides: Structure, Bioactivity, Safety, and Toxicity

Nutraceutical Potential of Seaweed Polysaccharides: Structure, Bioactivity, Safety, and Toxicity

Vii Foro Iberoamericano De Los Recursos Marinos Y La Acuicultura

Identifying Suitable Sites for Macroalgae Cultivation on the Swedish West Coast

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