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Neorhodomela Larix
''Neorhodomela larix'', commonly known as black pine, is a species of red algae native to coastal areas of the North Pacific, from Mexico to the Bering Sea to Japan. It forms dense mats on semi-exposed rocks in intertidal areas. The thallus is dark brown to black in color with whorled branches resembling a bottlebrush. Ecology The brown alga ''Soranthera ulvoidea'' is commonly found as an epiphyte An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it. The plants on which epiphytes grow are called phoroph ... on '' Neorhodomela'' species, especially ''N. larix'' Postels, A. & Ruprecht, F. (1840). pp. -vi iv, 1-28 -2, index atin: iv 22, -2, index 40 pls. Petropoli t. Petersburg Typis Eduardi Pratz. Isabella Abbott notes that individuals of '' Soranthera'' growing on ''Neorhodomela'' species as a host differ from those found on ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Analipus Japonicus
''Analipus japonicus'', or sea fir, is a brown alga species in the genus ''Analipus''. This species contains the phlorotannins difucol, trifucol, tetrafucol A and B, two pentafucols, four hexafucols, a heptafucol mixture and halogenated compounds such as bromo- and chlorotrifucol, 5'-bromo- and 5'-chlorotetrafucol-A as well as 5'-bromo- and 5'-chloropentafucol-A. This brown alga species is a Pacific subtropical-boreal plant species that populates the stone coast from the Sea of Japan to the Bering Sea and from Alaska to California. The ''Analipus'' thallus is an abiding lobed basal crust ("tar spot"), from which a short lived vertical axis with a number of branches develop. From the branches develop a unilocular or multilocular sporangia advance on the branches. References Further reading * * External links * ''Analipus japonicus''at Algaebase AlgaeBase is a global species database of information on all groups of algae, both marine and freshwater, as well as sea-g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bering Sea
The Bering Sea (, ; rus, Бе́рингово мо́ре, r=Béringovo móre) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasses on Earth: Eurasia and The Americas. It comprises a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelf, continental shelves. The Bering Sea is named for Vitus Bering, a Denmark, Danish navigator in Russian service, who, in 1728, was the first European to systematically explore it, sailing from the Pacific Ocean northward to the Arctic Ocean. The Bering Sea is separated from the Gulf of Alaska by the Alaska Peninsula. It covers over and is bordered on the east and northeast by Alaska, on the west by the Russian Far East and the Kamchatka Peninsula, on the south by the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands and on the far north by the Bering Strait, which connects the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soranthera
''Soranthera ulvoidea'', sometimes called the studded sea balloon, is a species of brown algae in the family Chordariaceae. It is the only species in the monotypic genus ''Soranthera''. The generic name ''Soranthera'' is from the Greek (heap) and (blooming). The specific epithet ''ulvoidea'' refers to certain resemblances the algae has with ''Ulva''. The name in Japanese is / ( or ) literally meaning "Kuril Islands bag nori". Description True to its common name, studded sea balloons are pale green to olive, ovoid sacs in diameter with small brown bumps on the surface. The bumpy 'studs' are the sori, which produce the zoosporangia. The sori are darker and measure 1 mm in diameter. There are groupings of multicellular hyaline 'hairs' in the center of the sori. The clavate to ovoid unangia (the unilocular reproductive structures or sporangia) are 78-100 μm long. The paraphyses are pluricellular (6-14 cells), also clavate, and almost double the length of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabella Abbott
Isabella Aiona Abbott (June 20, 1919 – October 28, 2010) was an educator, phycologist, and ethnobotanist from Hawaii. The first native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science, she became a leading expert on Pacific marine algae. Early life Abbott was born Isabella Kauakea Yau Yung Aiona in Hana, Maui, Territory of Hawaii, on June 20, 1919. Her Hawaiian name means "white rain of Hana" and she was known as "Izzy". Her father was ethnically Chinese while her mother was a Native Hawaiian. Her mother taught her about edible Hawaiian seaweeds and the value and diversity of Hawaii's native plants. Abbott was the only girl and second youngest in a family of eight siblings. She grew up in Honolulu near Waikiki, and graduated from Kamehameha Schools in 1937. She received her undergraduate degree in botany at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in 1941, a master's degree in botany from the University of Michigan in 1942, and a PhD in botany from the University of California, Berkeley i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Postels
Alexander Filippovich Postels (russian: Александр Филиппович Постельс; 24 August 1801 Dorpat – 28 June 1871 Vyborg), was a Baltic German of Russian citizenship naturalist, mineralogist and artist. Postels studied at St.Petersburg Imperial University and in 1826 lectured there on inorganic chemistry. In the 1820s political relations between Russia and the United States were troubled by the extent of Russian territory in North America. Russia intended to enforce its claims by sending two warships to the disputed areas. When the two countries agreed on 54°40′N as the southern limit of Russian claims, Nicholas I of Russia, Czar Nicolas I changed their orders in 1826 to an extended three-year survey of the Russian-American and Asian coasts. Otto von Kotzebue had returned on 10 July 1826 from his voyage of discovery aboard ''Predpriyatiye''. On 16 August 1826, Captain Lieutenant Fyodor Petrovich Litke, Fedor Petrovich Litke, sailed on board the Russia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epiphyte
An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it. The plants on which epiphytes grow are called phorophytes. Epiphytes take part in nutrient cycles and add to both the diversity and biomass of the ecosystem in which they occur, like any other organism. They are an important source of food for many species. Typically, the older parts of a plant will have more epiphytes growing on them. Epiphytes differ from parasites in that they grow on other plants for physical support and do not necessarily affect the host negatively. An organism that grows on another organism that is not a plant may be called an epibiont. Epiphytes are usually found in the temperate zone (e.g., many mosses, liverworts, lichens, and algae) or in the tropics (e.g., many ferns, cacti, orchids, and bromeliads). Epiphyte species make good houseplants due to their minimal wat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soranthera Ulvoidea
''Soranthera ulvoidea'', sometimes called the studded sea balloon, is a species of brown algae in the family Chordariaceae. It is the only species in the monotypic taxon, monotypic genus ''Soranthera''. The genus, generic name ''Soranthera'' is from the Greek language, Greek (heap) and (blooming). The Specific name (zoology), specific epithet ''ulvoidea'' refers to certain resemblances the algae has with ''Sea lettuce, Ulva''. The name in Japanese language, Japanese is / ( or ) literally meaning "Kuril Islands bag nori". Description True to its common name, studded sea balloons are pale green to olive, ovoid sacs in diameter with small brown bumps on the surface. The bumpy 'studs' are the Sorus, sori, which produce the Zoospore#Zoosporangium, zoosporangia. The sori are darker and measure 1 mm in diameter. There are groupings of multicellular hyaline 'hairs' in the center of the sori. The clavate to ovoid unangia (the unilocular reproductive structures or Sporangium, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown Alga
Brown algae (singular: alga), comprising the class (biology), class Phaeophyceae, are a large group of multicellular algae, including many seaweeds located in colder waters within the Northern Hemisphere. Brown algae are the major seaweeds of the temperate and polar regions. They are dominant on rocky shores throughout cooler areas of the world. Most brown algae live in marine environments, where they play an important role both as food and as a potential habitat. For instance, ''Macrocystis'', a kelp of the order Laminariales, may reach in length and forms prominent underwater kelp forests. Kelp forests like these contain a high level of biodiversity. Another example is ''Sargassum'', which creates unique floating mats of seaweed in the tropical waters of the Sargasso Sea that serve as the habitats for many species. Many brown algae, such as members of the order Fucales, commonly grow along rocky seashores. Some members of the class, such as kelps, are used by humans as food. Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thallus
Thallus (plural: thalli), from Latinized Greek (), meaning "a green shoot" or "twig", is the vegetative tissue of some organisms in diverse groups such as algae, fungi, some liverworts, lichens, and the Myxogastria. Many of these organisms were previously known as the thallophytes, a polyphyletic group of distantly related organisms. An organism or structure resembling a thallus is called thalloid, thallodal, thalliform, thalline, or thallose. A thallus usually names the entire body of a multicellular non-moving organism in which there is no organization of the tissues into organs. Even though thalli do not have organized and distinct parts (leaves, roots, and stems) as do the vascular plants, they may have analogous structures that resemble their vascular "equivalents". The analogous structures have similar function or macroscopic structure, but different microscopic structure; for example, no thallus has vascular tissue. In exceptional cases such as the Lemnoideae, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intertidal
The intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore, is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide (in other words, the area within the tidal range). This area can include several types of Marine habitat, habitats with various species of Marine life, life, such as seastars, Sea urchin, sea urchins, and many species of coral with regional differences in biodiversity. Sometimes it is referred to as the ''littoral zone'' or ''shore, seashore'', although those can be defined as a wider region. The well-known area also includes steep rocky Cliff, cliffs, sandy Beach, beaches, Bog, bogs or wetlands (e.g., vast Mudflat, mudflats). The area can be a narrow strip, as in Pacific island, Pacific islands that have only a narrow tidal range, or can include many meters of shoreline where shallow beach slopes interact with high tidal excursion. The peritidal zone is similar but somewhat wider, extending from above the highest tide level to below the lowest. Organisms in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
