Fifteenth International Seaweed Symposium: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Seaweed Symposium held in Valdivia, Chile, in January 1995

Front Matter....Pages i-xlv
Seaweed research and utilization in Chile: moving into a new phase....Pages 1-14
Ethnobotany of seaweeds: clues to uses of seaweeds....Pages 15-20
Host—virus interactions in marine brown algae....Pages 21-28
DNA analysis methods for recognizing species invasion: the example of Codium , and generally applicable methods for algae....Pages 29-34
Recent developments in manufacturing and marketing carrageenan....Pages 35-57
An introduction to integrated farming and the use of seaweeds as biofilters....Pages 59-60
 Ulva rigida (Ulvales, Chlorophyta) tank culture as biofilters for dissolved inorganic nitrogen from fishpond effluents....Pages 61-66
Integrated cultivation of salmonids and seaweeds in open systems....Pages 67-73
Integrated tank cultivation of salmonids and Gracilaria chilensis (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 75-82
Clean technology in aquaculture — a production without waste products?....Pages 83-86
Diseases in seaweeds: an introduction....Pages 87-88
Ecological aspects of algal infectious diseases....Pages 89-95
Etiology of infectious diseases in cultivated Chondrus crispus (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 97-104
Molecular and biochemical studies of virus infections in two filamentous brown algae....Pages 105-110
 Streblonema (Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae) infection in the kelp Laminaria saccharina (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae) in the western Baltic....Pages 111-116
Factors influencing depth distribution of soft bottom inhabiting Laminaria saccharina (L.) Lamour. in Kiel Bay, Western Baltic....Pages 117-123
The molecular systematics of some agar- and carrageenan-containing marine red algae based on rbc L sequence analysis....Pages 125-135
Systematic studies of the antarctic species of the Phyllophoraceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta) based on rbc L sequence analysis....Pages 137-143
Approaches to the identification of terete Brazilian Gracilariaceae (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 145-148
The species of Ceramium (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) around Taiwan....Pages 149-157
Affinities of the marine flora of the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico....Pages 159-168
Brown algae (Phaeophyta) from Bahía de los Angeles, Gulf of California, México....Pages 169-172
Patterns of species diversity and endemism in comparable temperate brown algal floras....Pages 173-178
Comparison of the structure of populations of Ascophyllum nodosum (Fucales, Phaeophyta) at sites with different harvesting histories....Pages 179-184
A comparison of reproductive allocation and reproductive effort between semelparous and iteroparous fucoids (Fucales, Phaeophyta)....Pages 185-190
Seasonal variation in a low shore Fucus serratus (Fucales, Phaeophyta) population and its epiphytic fauna....Pages 191-197
Spatial variation in polyphenolic content of Ascophyllum nodosum (Fucales, Phaeophyta)....Pages 199-203
Micropopulation differentiation in phenol content and susceptibility toherbivory in the Chilean kelp Lessonia nigrescens (Phaeophyta, Laminariales)....Pages 205-211
Surveys of Undaria pinnatifida (Laminariales, Phaeophyta) in Golfo Nuevo, Argentina....Pages 213-215
 Undaria pinnatifida (Laminariales, Phaeophyta) 12 years after its introduction into the Atlantic Ocean....Pages 217-222
Fecundity, spore recruitment and size in Gelidium sesquipedale (Gelidiales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 223-228
Organellar DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and nuclear random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analyses of morphotypes of Gracilaria (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) from Chile....Pages 229-234
Recruitment of Eucheuma and Kappaphycus on a farm in Tawi-Tawi, Philippines....Pages 235-244
Biological basis for the management of ‘luga negra’ ( Sarcothalia crispata Gigartinales, Rhodophyta) in southern Chile....Pages 245-252
Phenology of Gigartina skottsbergii (Gigartinaceae, Rhodophyta) in Ancud Bay, southern Chile....Pages 253-258
The relationship between stand biomass and frond density in the clonal alga Mazzaella cornucopiae (Rhodophyta, Gigartinaceae)....Pages 259-265
Summer biomass of a population of Iridaea cordata (Gigartinaceae, Rhodophyta) from Antarctica....Pages 267-272
Modeling competition between Laurencia obtusa (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) and Hypnea spinella (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta) at Cabo Frio Island, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....Pages 273-276
Reproductive biology of Stictosiphonia hookeri (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) from Argentina, Chile, South Africa and Australia in laboratory culture....Pages 277-282
Benthic microalgae: comparisons of chlorophyll a in mesocosms and field sites....Pages 283-289
The effect of localised eutrophiçation on competition between Ulva lactuca (Ulvaceae, Chlorophyta) and a commercial resource of Gracilaria verrucosa (Gracilariaceae, Rhodophyta)....Pages 291-296
Improvement of the shallow water communities following reductions of industrial outlets and sewage discharge in the Hvaler estuary, Norway....Pages 297-304
Long-term changes in heavy metal loadings of Ascophyllum nodosum from the Firth of Clyde, UK....Pages 305-310
Recolonization and restoration of upper intertidal Fucus gardneri (Fucales, Phaeophyta) following the Exxon Valdez oil spill....Pages 311-316
New method for toxicity assessment in marine and brackish environments using the macroalga Gracilaria tenuistipitata (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 317-325
The use of seaweeds as bioindicators of natural and anthropogenic contaminants in northern Chile....Pages 327-333
 Chondrus crispus (Gigartinaceae, Rhodophyta) tank cultivation: optimizing carbon input by a fixed pH and use of a salt water well....Pages 335-340
Agar yield and quality of Gracilaria chilensis (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta) in tank culture using fish effluents....Pages 341-345
Studies on Gracilaria changii (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) from Malaysian mangroves....Pages 347-352
Experimental tank cultivation of Gracilaria sp. (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) in Ecuador....Pages 353-354
 Gracilaria-Mytilus interaction on a commercial algal farm in Chile....Pages 355-359
Vegetative propagation by fragmentation of Gelidium sclerophyllum (Gelidiales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 361-365
Practical and descriptive techniques for Gelidium rex (Gelidiales, Rhodophyta) culture....Pages 367-370
Recent trends of seaweed production in Chile....Pages 371-379
Feasibility for the establishing a carrageenan industry in Mexico....Pages 381-386
Fusion and histocompatibility in Rhodophyta....Pages 387-392
Effects of auxins and cytokinins on tissue culture of Grateloupia dichotoma (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 393-400
Inorganic carbon acquisition by red seaweeds grown under dynamic light regimes....Pages 401-406
Xanthophyll-cycle and photosynthetic adaptation to environment in macro- and microalgae....Pages 407-413
Acclimation to UV irradiance in Gracilaria chilensis Bird, McLachlan & Oliveira (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 415-420
Intercellular assimilate translocation in Gracilaria cornea (Gracilariaceae, Rhodophyta)....Pages 421-428
Nuclear-encoded protein-coding genes of the agarophyte Gracilaria verrucosa (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 429-436
The effect of phosphate concentration on growth and agar content of Gelidium robustum (Gelidiaceae, Rhodophyta) in culture....Pages 437-443
Nitrogen and phosphorus uptake by the Brazilian kelp Laminaria abyssalis (Phaeophyta) in culture....Pages 445-450
Accumulation, effects on growth, and localization of zinc in Padina gymnospora (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae)....Pages 451-456
Dynamics of antibacterial activity in three species of Caribbean marine algae as a function of habitat and life history....Pages 457-462
Application of airborne imaging spectrometry system data to intertidal seaweed classification and mapping....Pages 463-471
Chemical characterisation and gelling properties of cell wall polysaccharides from species of Ulva (Ulvales, Chlorophyta)....Pages 473-480
Vibrational spectroscopy of seaweed galactans....Pages 481-489
The acidic polysaccharide from Palmaria decipiens (Palmariales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 491-495
Structure and properties of agar from two unexploited agarophytes from Venezuela....Pages 497-500
Temporal and spatial variation in agar from a population of Pterocladia capillacea (Gelidiales, Rhodophyta) from Brazil....Pages 501-504
A polysaccharide fraction from the red seaweed Champia novae-zealandiae Rhodymeniales, Rhodophyta....Pages 505-509
Seasonal variations in sterol composition of Delesseria sanguinea (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 511-514
Changes in M:G ratios of extracted and residual alginate fractions on boiling with water the dried brown alga Kjellmaniella crassifolia (Laminariales, Phaeophyta)....Pages 515-518
Back Matter....Pages 519-534