Accession Number:
AD0738885
Title:
Research on and Culture of Calcareous Green Algae.
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. 1 Mar 67-31 Dec 70,
Corporate Author:
OHIO STATE UNIV RESEARCH FOUNDATION COLUMBUS
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Report Date:
1972-02-11
Pagination or Media Count:
30.0
Abstract:
Four genera of coral reef Siphonales, Halimeda, Penicillus, Rhipocephalus and Udotea were grown in laboratory aquaria under light intensities of 650, 200-375 and 125-200 ft-candles. The commercial preparation Instant Ocean was tested for use with plants. Penicillin and Lindane were tested for their effect on epiphytes and other nuisances. The growth and development of all 4 genera from tiny protuberances above the sand to white, dying and disintegrating was followed. All produced new individuals from rhizoidal-like filaments that extended outwards through the sand from the holdfast of an older plant. I demonstrated how vegetative reproduction might occur with partial burying of individuals by shifting sands in a reef, or from portions of plant broken off by grazing or other natural activities. Plants produced vegetatively are not initially epiphytized and so may be a source of clean plants for laboratory experiment. Insight into the role of calcareous plants in a reef was obtained by a productivity study which combined a census of such plants in a reef and a laboratory measure of oxygen changes in an entire aquarium. Author
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Subject Categories:
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Biological Oceanography