Calcified macroalgae - critical to coastal ecosystems and vulnerable to change: a review

By W. Nelson. 2009

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Ocean acidification effects on calcifying macroalgae (2014, background): “Particularly algae in the genus Halimeda contribute heavily to sediment production, and diverse species of crustose calcifying algae act as a cement that maintains the structural integrity of coral reefs (see Adey 1998, Nelson 2009 for reviews).”
Concentration boundary layers around complex assemblages of macroalgae: Implications for the effects of ocean acidification on understory coralline algae (2013, background): “corymbosa are also common components of many temperate rocky reefs worldwide (Nelson 2009), and for this reason it was chosen as the canopy-forming study species.”
European seaweeds under pressure: Consequences for communities and ecosystem functioning (2015, background): “It may have adverse effects on calcifying organisms such as encrusting or articulated corallines, as well as on various calcifying species belonging to various orders of red, green and brown seaweeds (Doney et al., 2009; Nelson, 2009), by reducing their ability to biomineralize or even causing net d”
Can macroalgae contribute to blue carbon? An Australian perspective (2015, background): “Rhodolith forming species can produce in the region of 60–1000 g CaCO3 m 22 yr21, with CaCO3 deposits off Brazil’s coast alone of 2 Pg (Riul et al. 2008; Nelson 2009).”
Reviews and syntheses: Calculating the global contribution of coralline algae to total carbon burial (2015, background): “Coralline algae are ecosystem engineers (Nelson, 2009), major framework builders and carbonate producers, especially in temperate and cold water benthic ecosystems (Nelson, 1988; Freiwald and Henrich, 1994; Foster, 2001; Gherardi, 2004; Bracchi and Basso, 2012; Savini et al.”
Climate change and ocean acidification effects on seagrasses and marine macroalgae (2013, background): “%) characterize the majority of coralline species within the Rhodophyta (Table 2), including those species important in the formation of reefs and free-living rhodoliths (Nelson, 2009).”
Effects of ocean acidification on macroalgal communities (2011, background): “Erect calcareous algae are often important for calcareous sediment production and typically host a high biodiversity of associated fauna and flora (Nelson, 2009).”
Species-specific consequences of ocean acidification for the calcareous tropical green algae Halimeda (2011, background): “In particular, species of the genus Halimeda (order Bryopsidales) contribute significantly to reef calcification and productivity rates because of their fast growth and rapid turnover rates (Vroom et al. 2003, Smith et al. 2004, Nelson 2009) in comparison to corals or CRAs.”
Diversity of carbon use strategies in a kelp forest community: implications for a high CO2 ocean (2011, background): “…rocky reefs covered by coralline crusts that provide the very foundation of temperate reefs worldwide (Lewis, 1964; Lüning, 1990; Friewald, 1993; Adey, 1998; Foster, 2001; Taylor & Wilson, 2002; Nelson, 2009) to fleshy and filamentous red macroalgae that currently have limited ecological roles.”