Juvenile morphology of the large Antarctic canopy-forming brown alga, Desmarestia menziesii J. Agardh

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Küpper, Frithjof C., Amsler, Charles D., Morley, Simon, de Reviers, Bruno, Reichardt, Aurelia, Peck, Lloyd S., Peters, Akira F.
• Other Authors: Natural Environment Research Council
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2019
• Subjects: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Adelaide Island; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Anvers; Anvers Island; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; Rothera; Rothera Research Station; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-019-02584-3; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00300-019-02584-3.pdf; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-019-02584-3/fulltext.html

Abstract For many types of seaweeds in Polar Regions, open questions remain about how their life cycle contributes to their overall adaptation to the extreme abiotic environment. This applies in particular to the major canopy-forming brown algae in much of the Antarctic Peninsula of the genus Desmar...