Algae References

[michaelg]

I came across this great collection of links posted by mesocosm in Anthony Calfo's forum on ReefCentral:  Hopefully Nathan will see these and make them permanent additions to our links pages.

 

Strange and mind-boggling as it is to me, Dr. Bob Goemans ... the man who would sell us all magnets to filter our reefs ... has one of THE BEST set of algae picture pages, complete with correlations to natural predators ...

 

... go figure ...    

 

Dr. Bob Goemans' "The Algae Page"

http://www.saltcorner.com/sections/...e/algaepage.htm

 

Another pretty good picture site is:

Horge Cortes Jorge Jr's Marine Benthic Macro-Algae Catalog

http://mabma.thereeftank.com/

 

Other good picture sites of varying usefulness (IMO) are:

 

The Seaweed Site

National University of Ireland, Galway

http://www.seaweed.ie/defaultmonday.html

 

Hawaiian Reef Algae

http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/reefalgae/default.htm

 

 

An extensive Algae ID site is:

 

Algaebase.org (*)

http://www.algaebase.org

 

(*) This is a truly great ID site ... I agree completely with tippy toex and others ... but it can be very slow and cumbersome to use. It also needs a user with a basic taxonomy background to be really efficient, IMO ... .

 

Less extensive, but still interesting is:

 

Ohio University Algal Images

http://vis-pc.plantbio.ohiou.edu/al.../imageindex.htm

 

Also:

 

The Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Texas at Austin

http://www.bio.utexas.edu/research/utex/

 

 

If you want to get "serious" ...

 

Phycological Society of America

http://www.psaalgae.org/

 

And ...

 

University of Guam, Division of Natural Sciences

Marine Botany Links Page (**)

http://www.uog.edu/classes/botany/M.../algaelinks.htm

 

(**) This is a GREAT marine algae links page, IMO .

 

 

HTH.

 

 

 

 

 

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Mesocosm