Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium, held in Bergen, Norway, 20 – 25 June 2004

Front Matter....Pages I-XXXV
Advances in seaweed aquaculture among Pacific Island countries....Pages 1-8
Experimental tank cultivation of Porphyra in Israel....Pages 9-14
Rapid survey technique using socio-economic indicators to assess the suitability of Pacific Island rural communities for Kappaphycus seaweed farming development....Pages 15-23
Artificial seed production and cultivation of the edible brown alga, Sargassum fulvellum (Turner) C. Agardh: Developing a new species for seaweed cultivation in Korea....Pages 25-31
Farming of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera in southern Chile for development of novel food products....Pages 33-41
Effects of temperature and salinity on the growth of Gracilaria verrucosa and G. chorda , with the potential for mariculture in Korea....Pages 43-51
Developmental studies in Porphyra vietnamensis : A high-temperature resistant species from the Indian Coast....Pages 53-60
Spore adhesion and cell wall formation in Gelidium floridanum (Rhodophyta, Gelidiales)....Pages 61-68
Forecasting infections of the red rot disease on Porphyra yezoensis Ueda (Rhodophyta) cultivation farms....Pages 69-73
Occurrence of Polysiphonia epiphytes in Kappaphycus farms at Calaguas Is., Camarines Norte, Phillippines....Pages 75-80
Culture of Gigartina skottsbergii (Rhodophyta) in southern Chile. A pilot scale approach....Pages 81-88
Can kelp extract (KELPAK®) be useful in seaweed mariculture?....Pages 89-95
A remote sensing approach to estimating harvestable kelp biomass....Pages 97-108
The effects of harvesting of the South African kelp ( Ecklonia maxima ) on kelp population structure, growth rate and recruitment....Pages 109-115
Harvesting of the kelp Ecklonia maxima in South Africa affects its three obligate, red algal epiphytes....Pages 117-123
Changes in the brown seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum (L.) Le Jol. plant morphology and biomass produced by cutter rake harvests in southern New Brunswick, Canada....Pages 125-133
Carrageenans from cystocarpic and sterile plants of Chondrus pinnulatus (Gigartinaceae, Rhodophyta) collected from the Russian Pacific coast....Pages 135-142
A comparative study of specificity of fucoidanases from marine microorganisms and invertebrates....Pages 143-147
Comparative characterization of laminarinases from the filamentous marine fungi Chaetomium indicum Corda and Trichoderma aureviride Rifai....Pages 149-154
Seasonal variation in the chemical composition of tropical Australian marine macroalgae....Pages 155-161
Tissue nitrogen and phosphorus in seaweeds in a tropical eutrophic environment: What a long-term study tells us....Pages 163-172
Element concentrations in some species of seaweeds from La Paz Bay and La Paz Lagoon, south-western Baja California, Mexico....Pages 173-182
Formation of aldehyde flavor ( n -hexanal, 3 Z -nonenal and 2 E -nonenal) in the brown alga, Laminaria angustata ....Pages 183-186
Antimicrobial browning-inhibitory effect of flavor compounds in seaweeds....Pages 187-196
Effect of detachment on the palatability of two kelp species....Pages 197-209
A comparison of various seaweed-based diets and formulated feed on growth rate of abalone in a land-based aquaculture system....Pages 211-217
A simple 96-well microplate method for estimation of total polyphenol content in seaweeds....Pages 219-224
Effects of UVB radiation on the initial stages of growth of Gigartina skottsbergii, Sarcothalia crispata and Mazzaella laminarioides (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 225-233
Photosynthesis and UV-B tolerance of the marine alga Fucus vesiculosus at different sea water salinities....Pages 235-241
Effects of environmental factors and metal ions on growth of the red alga Gracilaria chorda Holmes (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 243-248
A genomic and phylogenetic perspective on endosymbiosis and algal origin....Pages 249-255
Isolation of pollutant (pine needle ash)-responding genes from tissues of the seaweed Ulva pertusa ....Pages 257-261
Isolation and identification of gametogenesis-related genes in Porphyra yezoensis (Rhodophyta) using subtracted cDNA libraries....Pages 263-270
Molecular systematics and phylogenetics of Gracilariacean species from the Mediterranean Sea....Pages 271-278
Long term variability in the structure of kelp communities in northern Chile and the 1997–98 ENSO....Pages 279-293
Recent fluctuations in distribution and biomass of cold and warm temperature species of Laminarialean algae at Cape Ohma, northern Honshu, Japan....Pages 295-301
Introduced macroalgae — A growing concern....Pages 303-315
Time-space characterization of commercial seaweed species from the Gulf of California using a geographical information system....Pages 317-324
Phenology of Chondrus ocellatus in Cheongsapo near Busan, Korea....Pages 325-330
Seasonality pattern of biomass accumulation in a drifting Furcellaria lumbricalis community in the waters of the West Estonian Archipelago, Baltic Sea....Pages 331-337
Factors influencing the growth rates of three commercial eucheumoids at coastal sites in southern Kenya....Pages 339-347
Reproduction strategies of Macrocystis pyrifera (Phaeophyta) in Southern Chile: The importance of population dynamics....Pages 349-356
Group recruitment and early survival of Mazzaella laminarioides ....Pages 357-363
Distribution and recent reduction of Gelidium beds in Toyama Bay, Japan....Pages 365-372
Overgrazing of kelp beds along the coast of Norway....Pages 373-384
Seasonal occurrences of epiphytic algae on the commercially cultivated red alga Kappaphycus alvarezii (Solieriaceae, Gigartinales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 385-391
The role of encrusting coralline algae in the diets of selected intertidal herbivores....Pages 393-401
Phenology of Sargassum spp. in Tung Ping Chau Marine Park, Hong Kong SAR, China....Pages 403-410
Biogeography of Alaskan seaweeds....Pages 411-415
Systematics and genetic variation in commercial Kappaphycus and Eucheuma (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta)....Pages 417-425
Phylogenetic diversity of New Zealand Gelidiales as revealed by rbc L sequence data....Pages 427-435
Taxonomic considerations of a foliose Grateloupia species from the Straits of Messina....Pages 437-443
Observations on flattened species of Gracilaria (Gracilariaceae, Rhodophyta) from Taiwan....Pages 445-452
Phylogenetic re-evaluation of the Laurencia complex (Rhodophyta) with a description of L. succulenta sp. nov. from Korea....Pages 453-471