Amanda Savoie
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Seaweed taxonomist at the Canadian Museum of Nature
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Northeast Algal Society (NEAS) 🧪🌎🦠💧
22 days ago
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#HelloWorld
! We are the official BlueSky account for the Northeast Algal Society! Here for all your phycology needs (freshwater and marine) for the Northeast North America (algae of here and our members globally). Please follow along for society news, celebrations, and more!
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Ryuta Terada
4 months ago
A green alga, Caulerpa okamurae, from Tomioka, Reihoku, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.
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Science Magazine
12 months ago
Kelp forests on the coast of Maine are in decline owing to rapid ocean warming and are being replaced by turf algae, which alter the ecosystem’s chemistry, hindering the recovery of kelp forests. Learn more in this week's issue of Science:
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Matt Bracken
12 months ago
#PhycologyFriday
add a skeleton here at some point
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Hakai Institute
about 1 year ago
A big thank you to Akshay Kulkarni at the CBC for covering a new Hakai study showing endangered sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides) finding refuge from sea star wasting disease (SSWD) in the fjords of BC’s Central Coast. Read the full story here 🔗
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9 out of 10 sunflower sea stars were wiped out — but B.C. researchers say fiords provided refuge | CBC News
B.C. researchers have found that the fiords of the Central Coast may be providing refuge for the critically endangered sunflower sea star, a discovery that could have implications for wider ecosystems...
https://tinyurl.com/4mcyn3tc
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Matt Bracken
about 1 year ago
A baby giant. 🌊💙
#PhycologyFriday
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Ryuta Terada
about 1 year ago
A red alga,
#Asparagopsis
taxiformis, found on Nagashima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture.
#algae
#seaweed
#phycology
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Happy
#PhycologyFriday
! Canada's Arctic waters are more colourful than you might expect. This seaweed-filled scene is from near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.
about 1 year ago
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Jarrett Byrnes
about 1 year ago
Do
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forests really matter for fish? Check out our new meta-analysis w/ Ale Pérez-Matus in Ecology showing 1) multistipe kelps do more than single stipe, 2) all kelps enhance juveniles, 3) kelps help small herbivores & big predators.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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