Proximate Composition and Standing Crop of Durvillaea-Antarctica (Pheophyta) in the Bay of Morbihan, Kerguelen (South Indian-Ocean)

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Author: Lawrence, John M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 1986
• Subjects: Medical Sciences; Medicine and Health Sciences; Holdfast; Indian; Kerguelen; Antarc*; Antarctica; antartic*
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/bin_facpub/25; https://doi.org/10.3354/meps033001

The proximate composition (% dry weight) of Durvillaea antartica (Cham.) Hariot was similar for the frond and stipe, being 28 % ash, 3 % protein, ca 1 % lipid, less than 10 % acid-soluble carbohydrate, and 60 % acid-insoluble carbohydrate. The holdfast differed by being 22 % ash and 66 % acid-insolu...