The Asian Seaweed, the Most Virulent Invader that Causes an "Unprecedented" Impact on the Spanish Coasts: "Neither with All the Money in the World Could the Situation Be Reversed"
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This is one more case of an invasive exotic species that has been introduced into Spain aided by man and, although it is not the first invasive algae to arrive, it is "the one that has caused the greatest socio-economic impact", according to biologist María Altamirano Read
Esther Gómez Málaga.- The Asian algae (Rugulopteryx okamurae) is the most virulent invasive species of algae that has arrived in Spain and that is causing an "unprecedented" environmental and socio-economic impact, according to the biologist and researcher of the Department of Botany and Plant Physiology of the University of Málaga (UMA) María Altamirano, one of the greatest experts in the country. Although "there is no money in the world nor en…
The Asian seaweed (Rugulopteryx okamurae) is the most virulent invasive species of algae that has arrived in the state and that is causing an "unprecedented" environmental and socio-economic impact, according to the biologist and researcher of the Department of Botany and Plant Physiology of the University of Malaga (UMA) María Altamirano, one of the largest experts in the country.
It is called Rugulopteryx okamurae, but is popularly known as Asian algae, and has consolidated as the invading marine species [...]
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