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Seaweeds exist as individuals, but they also live together in communities with other seaweeds and animals – communities that affect and are affected by the environment. In Chapter 1 we reviewed the morphologies, life histories, and developmental processes of seaweeds as species. In this chapter we consider the patterns and processes in marine benthic communities as a starting point for later factor-by-factor dissection of the environment. We open with overviews of three major habitats and the seaweeds in them: rocky intertidal zone, tropical reefs, and kelp forests. We hope that these personal essays by some noted algal ecologists will also give the reader a glimpse of the phycologist at work and a sense of the excitement of physiological ecology. Near the end of the chapter, three more ecologists tell about some less well known habitats: salt marshes, seagrasses, and the Arctic.
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Seaweeds exist as individuals, but they also live together in communities with other seaweeds and animals – communities that affect and are affected by the environment. In Chapter 1 we reviewed the morphologies, life histories, and developmental processes of seaweeds as species. In this chapter we consider the patterns and processes in marine benthic communities as a starting point for later factor-by-factor dissection of the environment. We open with overviews of three major habitats and the seaweeds in them: rocky intertidal zone, tropical reefs, and kelp forests. We hope that these personal essays by some noted algal ecologists will also give the reader a glimpse of the phycologist at work and a sense of the excitement of physiological ecology. Near the end of the chapter, three more ecologists tell about some less well known habitats: salt marshes, seagrasses, and the Arctic.
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