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killer alga

Scientific Name: Caulerpa taxifolia

Family: Caulerpaceae

Category: AL

Growth: Nonvascular

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Description: Caulerpa taxifolia is a species of seaweed, an alga of the genus Caulerpa. This concern earned the plant the dubious nickname &quotKiller Algae&quot after the title of&nbsp&*! Images. Caulerpa taxifolia. Scientific Name: Caulerpa taxifolia. Common Name: Killer Algae (also: Caulerpa, aquarium caulerpa). Native Range: Indian Ocean&nbsp&*! An excerpt from Killer Algae by Alexandre Meinesz. Also available on : online catalogs, secure online ordering, excerpts from new books. Sign up for&nbsp&*! Killer Alga, Caulerpa taxifolia. The Situation: Caulerpa taxifolia is an invasive alga that is causing serious environmental problems in the&nbsp&*! The Mediterranean strain of Caulerpa taxifolia earned the name &#8220killer algae&#8221 because of its devastating effects on the Mediterranean coast. The story of this alga&nbsp&*! Scientific name: Caulerpa taxifolia (Vahl) C. Agandh ( ITIS name is accepted but unverified). Common names: Caulerpa, Mediterranean clone Killer algae.&*! Caulerpa taxifolia has gained worldwide attention and the nickname &quotkiller algae&quot because of its great success in coastal Mediterranean waters. It is a native&nbsp&*! Caulerpa taxifolia: The &quotkiller algae&quot is in Southern California! A non-native and highly invasive marine seaweed, Caulerpa taxifolia (hereafter Caulerpa),&nbsp&*! Common Name: Killer Algae (hybrid form). Scientific Name: Caulerpa taxifolia ( Photo from Makowka, J. 2000). Classification: Phylum or&nbsp&*! March&#8212Meinesz publishes the first edition(4) of his book, which is published two years later in the U.S. as Killer Algae: The True Tale of a Biological Invasion&nbsp&*! Nansei-shoto, Ogasawara-shoto, Maldives, New Caledonia, Seychelles. Functional type: Algae (macroalgae). Status in England: Non-Native.&*! Killer Algae BBC2 9.00pm Thursday 8th February 2001. Parts of the Mediterranean sea-floor are a green desert NARRATOR (HAYDN GWYNNE): Thirty years&nbsp&*! Killer Algae is the biological and political horror story of this invasion. For despite Meinesz&#39s pleas to scientists and the French government, no agency was&nbsp&*! Common names: caulerpa (English), killer alga (English), lukay-lukay Caulerpa taxifolia is an invasive marine alga that is widely used as a&nbsp&*! C. taxifolia is a green marine macro-algae native to tropical waters of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans. In the 1980s, a&*! General Information. Symbol: CATA5. Group: Green Algae. Family: Caulerpaceae. Duration: Growth Habit: Nonvascular. Native Status: L48 I. Other Common&nbsp&*! - 44 min - Uploaded by MisiewiczsyvtKiller Algae BBC Documentary Full NOVA scienceNOW : 51 - Public Genomes, Algae Fuel &*! - 3 min - Uploaded by TED-EdView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/attack-of-the-killer-algae-eric-noel- munoz As benign &*! The fish killer extraordinaire is a measly dinoflagellate, a kind of alga, or single- celled aquatic plant. Dinoflagellates are twilight-zone creatures:&nbsp&*! Caulerpa taxifolia (&quotKiller Algae&quot) Found in Southern California An invasive algae , Caulerpa taxifolia, was discovered in San Diego County&#39s Agua Hedionda&nbsp&*! Attack of the Killer Algae by Sandie Lee. What&#39s green, leafy, lives under water, can grow up to 2.8 meters in height, and is considered a killer? Caulerpa taxifolia &nbsp&*! Biologist Terje Berge compares the killer algae to carnivorous plants. But his research shows that some carnivorous algae can be even more&nbsp&*! View Related Gallery . &#8220Killer algae&#8221 is being helped by ocean acidification from climate change. NOAA, via Wikimedia Commons. Gallery.&*! Caulerpa. Killer alga. SYNONYMS. Fucus taxifolius Vahl, 1802. SHORT . A green macroalga with upright leaf-like fronds arising.&*! Abstract. Since the mid-1980s, fish-killing blooms of Prymnesium parvum spread throughout the USA. In the south central USA, P. parvum&nbsp&*! THE CRIMES: Caulerpa is seaweed that is an aggressive invader of the ocean floor. It forms dense stands of nothing but Caulerpa. These stands change the&nbsp&*! Caulerpa taxifolia (Vahl) C. Agardh &ampmdash . Killer Alga learn more about names for this taxon &middot Add to a collection &middot &middot Detail &middot Data &middot 21&nbsp&*! Supervolcanoes and cosmic impacts get all the terrible glory for causing mass extinctions, but a new theory suggests lowly algae may be the&nbsp&*! A volleyball-ct-sized patch of bright green algae in a San Diego lagoon has set off alarm bells among ecologists and officials. Scientists&nbsp&*! Listed as one of the top 100 invasive species on the Global Invasive Species Database, Killer Algae is a major cause for concern across the RINSE region, and&nbsp&*! KILLER ALGAE The True Tale of a Biological Invasion. Alexandre Meinesz. Translated from the French by Daniel Simberloff. Introduction by&nbsp&*! Killer Alga (Caulerpa taxifolia) What A species of seaweed or marine green alga used extensively as an ornamental plant in aquariums. It is known to produce a&nbsp&*! killer alga caulerpa taxifolia definition, meaning, English dictionary, synonym, see also &#39killer&#39,killer bee&#39,killer cell&#39,killer whale&#39, Reverso dictionary, English&nbsp&*! Glasby, T., 2006. Caulerpa taxifolia: killer alga or just misunderstood?. Oral presentation given at the 2006 joint conference for the Society of Wetlands Scientists&nbsp&*! killer alga Caulerpa taxifolia in Spanish. Spanish-Romanian Dictionary killer alga Caulerpa taxifolia. Romanian-Spanish Dictionary killer alga Caulerpa&nbsp&*! dict.cc German-English Dictionary: Translation for killer alga.&*! detrimental aquarium-release invasions by the &#8220killer alga&#8221 Caulerpa taxifolia, would constitute safe alternatives to introduction of the alga into natural&nbsp&*! Concerns are being raised about initial efforts to combat the first outbreak on the American Pacific coast of an ecologically damaging marine alga, Caulerpa&nbsp&*! Since the mid-1980s, fish-killing blooms ofPrymnesium parvum spread throughout the USA. In the south central USA, P. parvum blooms have&nbsp&*! Attack of the killer algae. Within the past 20 years, massive blooms of harmful algae (often called &quotred tides&quot) have occurred along all three U.S. sea coasts.&*! killer seaweed. Caulerpa taxifolia was introduced by accident in the Mediterranean Sea around 1984. This tropical seaweed is growing rapidly in the south of&nbsp&*! Many people have read of the outbreak of Killer Algae (Caulerpa taxifolia) in the Mediterranean Sea and more recently in Southern California. For a number of&nbsp&*! nation&#39s first outbreak of &#8220killer algae&#8221 &#8212 a nonnative seaweed called Caulerpa taxifolia that was discovered in two Southern California coastal harbors in June&nbsp&*! This can happen at y swiming hole too, so let&#39s watch that nitrogen pollution people. Don&#39t feed those killer algae, or they will feed on you!&*! View Stock Photo of Killer Alga Caulerpa Caulerpa Taxifolia Elba Mediterranean Sea Italy. Find premium, high-resolution photos at Gettys.&*! Erratum to: A chronicle of a killer alga in the west: ecology, assessment, and management of Prymnesium parvum blooms. Hydrobiologia, Sep 2015. Daniel L.&*! Add 3 links to eMule. BBC.Horizon.2001-02-08.Killer.Algae.DivX.MP3-jvt40.avi ( 700.15 Mb) Subtitles: eng &middot BBC.Horizon.2001-02-08.Killer.&*! Could the diversity of the Mediterranean&#39s sea life be destroyed by one alga? In this compelling account of an ecological problem gone awry, French marine&nbsp&*!