Priit Kersen

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Surface which can favour settlement of macroalgae?

Does anyone know which kind of natural surfaces stimulates algal propagules (particularly red algal spores) to settle on a solid surface in marine/brackish condition. There are numerous papers...

08 July 2016 5,880 5 View

Does anyone recognize that kind of alga or fungus?

This little algal or fungus tuft (habitus ca 3 mm; please look attached files) is found in the brackish waters in shallow littoral habitat between Fucus belt in the Baltic Sea. I have never seen...

14 October 2014 9,682 38 View

Does anyone know if charophytes (incl Chara spp) are covered by epiphytes or has even seen this kind of epibiotic interaction before?

Recently I found red macroalgae Ceramium tenuicorne growing on Chara aspera which is commonly known as macro-epiphytes free species (due to allelopathic activity). Has anyone read a paper which...

11 September 2014 3,336 19 View

Can anyone identify this Rhodophyta?

This red macroalga is collected on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, Tarragona. Specimen was entangled with Corallina sp, filaments diameter: 100-150 micrometer, algal turf is 2 cm high. Also I...

18 June 2013 1,710 27 View

Is the dichotomous key suitable for composing a joint marine benthic identification guide?

We are planning to write a field guide of marine macrofauna and macrophytes suitable for students and biologists as well. The taxonomic key structure will be more like a photographic field guide...

04 April 2013 3,027 10 View