High diversity of coralline algae in New Zealand revealed: Knowledge gaps and implications for future research.

ABSTRACT: Coralline algae (Corallinophycideae) are calcifying red algae that are foundation species in euphotic marine habitats globally. In recent years, corallines have received increasing attention due to their vulnerability to global climate change, in particular ocean acidification and warming, and because of the range of ecological functions that coralline algae provide, including provisioning habitat, influencing settlement of invertebrate and other algal species, and stabilising reef structures. Many of the ecological roles corallines perform, as well as their responses to stressors, have been demonstrated to be species-specific. In order to understand the roles and responses of coralline algae, it is essential to be able to reliably distinguish individual species, which are frequently morph

SUBMITTER: Twist BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6886753 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature