MACOI - Portuguese Seaweeds Website

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Portuguese Seaweeds Website - Portal Português das Macroalgas

Here you can access various information on seaweeds, mainly found along the Portuguese shoreline. See information on the sites where a certain species or genus can be found - search by genus or species - or check which seaweeds were already found at a particular costal station - search by collecting site.

You can also search the preserved specimens (in formalin and herbarium) in MACOI and COI - Phycological Collection (briefly). It is also possible to obtain detailed information on coastal sites and the species listed on this database.

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News

2009 - Aspects of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Portugal for Transitional and Coastal Waters (in Portuguese). PDF

(2008-11-15) Valencia Declaration produced within the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, held in Valencia from 11 to 15 November 2008. Web link

(2008-05-15) Viana do Castelo launches soap made with seaweed (in portuguese); Author: JF; Source: IOL Portugal Diário Web link

(2007-10-16) BIOSFERA, Episode 115, Algae - natural resource (in Portuguese): the algae are the base of the food chain in aquatic ecosystems and can be an important resource for humans. The advantages in mineral consumption of algae are unknown for most of the western population. But it is known that the quality of macroalgae have as agricultural fertilizer Video link

(2007-02-20) Algae that you want! (in Portuguese) Author: Raphael S. Jerónimo; Source: Diário de Coimbra. PDF

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