An upright posture in the water column may expose benthic marine organisms to faster flow higher in the water column than near the substratum, potentially increasing rates of mass exchange while also exposing the organisms to higher hydrodynamic forces. Benthic organisms maintain upright postures in the water column by one of two mechanisms, stiffness or buoyancy. Turbinaria ornata is a tropica...

Seaweeds are becoming a viable source of biologically active composites with hopeful application as nutraceuticals, functional food components, and medicinal agents. In the present study, antioxidant capacity biochemical compositions four seaweeds; Polycladia indica Turbinaria ornata (Phaeophyceae) Laurencia obtusa Sarconema scinaioides (Rhodophyceae), were estimated. The results indicated that...

Herbivorous surgeonfishes are an ecologically successful group of reef fish that rely on marine algae as their principal food source. Here, we elucidated the significance of giant enteric symbionts colonizing these fishes regarding their roles in the digestive processes of hosts feeding predominantly on polysiphonous red algae and brown Turbinaria algae, which contain different polysaccharide c...

This experimental study assessed the grazing rates of the Mediterranean symbiotic coral Cladocora caespitosa on the 4 main food sources available in its natural environment: detrital particulate organic matter (DPOM) and pico-, nano-, and microzooplankton. These rates were compared to the rates of 2 other scleractinian symbiotic species, the Mediterranean coral Oculina patagonica and the tropic...

Abstract Fucoxanthin, a natural xanthophyll carotenoid, is generally found in brown seaweeds, such as Sargassum duplicatum, Turbinaria turbinata, Padina australis, Undaria pinnatifida, and Laminaria japonica; microalga or diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum, Isochrysis galbana Odontella sinensis. Fucoxanthin marine exhibiting several anticancer activities, activities against leukemia, prostate, ce...

Alginates are one of the most important compounds brown seaweeds. These employed in food area, because their rheological properties, such as viscosity, gelling, and stabilizing features dietary fiber source. In this study, five species dominant seaweeds were collected Red Sea (Padina boergesenii, Turbinaria triquetra, Hormophysa cuneiformis, Dictyota ciliolata, Sargassum aquifolium) so to chara...

Pulau Kabung merupakan salah satu pulau kecil di Kalimantan Barat yang terdapat Kabupaten Bengkayang, dengan memiliki keanekaragaman hayati laut satunya yaitu makroalga. Makroalga menjadi indikator kualitas suatu perairan secara ekologi bagi ekosistem berfungsi sebagai produsen primer mendukung kehidupan biota ada laut. Tujuan dari penelitian ini mengetahui komposisi makroalga dan nilai indeks ...