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Killer algae
- Title
- Killer algae / Alexandre Meinesz ; translated by Daniel Simberloff ; with a foreword by David Quammen.
- Author
- Meinesz, Alexandre.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Simberloff, Daniel.
- Description
- xvi, 360 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Many years ago, a Stuttgart zoo imported a lush, bright green seaweed for its aquarium. Caulerpa taxifolia was cultivated in the zoo and exposed, for years, to chemicals and ultraviolet light. Eventually a sample of it found its way to the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco, then headed by Jacques Cousteau. Fifteen years ago, while cleaning its tanks, that museum dumped the pretty green plant into the Mediterranean." "This supposedly benign little plant - that no one thought could survive the waters of the Mediterranean - has become a pernicious force. Caulerpa taxifolia now covers 10,000 acres of the coasts of France, Spain, Italy, and Croatia, and has devastated Mediterranean ecosystems. And it continues to grow, unstoppable and toxic. When Alexandre Meinesz, a professor of biology at the University of Nice, learned of a square-yard patch of it in 1988, he warned biologists and oceanographers of the potential species invasion. His calls went unheeded. At that time, one person could have weeded the small patch and ended the problem. Since then, the plant has defeated the French Navy, thwarted scientific efforts to halt its rampage, and continues its destructive journey into the Adriatic Sea." "Killer Algae is the biological and political horror story of this invasion."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Roman noir de l'algue "tueuse". English
- Alternative Title
- Roman noir de l'algue "tueuse".
- Subject
- Caulerpa taxifolia > Mediterranean Sea
- Toxic marine algae > Mediterranean Sea
- Alien plants > Mediterranean Sea
- Poisonous plants
- Plants, Toxic
- Poisonous plants
- Alien plants
- Caulerpa taxifolia
- Toxic marine algae
- Wieren
- Toxiciteit
- Invasie (biologie)
- Milieurampen
- Alien plants > Mediterranean Sea
- Caulerpa taxifolia > Mediterranean Sea
- Toxic marine algae > Mediterranean Sea
- Caulerpa taxifolia > Méditerranée (mer)
- Plantes envahissantes
- Mediterranean Sea
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-349) and index.
- Contents
- From the discovery of the alga in Monaco to its arrival in France -- The alga grows, and the polemic begins -- Caulerpa taxifolia, superstar -- The stakeholders squabble, and the alga spreads -- Research progresses, and the polemic persists -- Chiaroscuro: 1997-1998 -- The three lessons of Caulerpa -- The biology of Caulerpa taxifolia as known in 1991 -- Chronology of a heralded invasion -- Table of measures -- Acronyms of organizations -- Diagram of the French government.
- ISBN
- 0226519228
- 9780226519227
- LCCN
- 99032502
- OCLC
- ocm41431708
- 41431708
- SCSB-929244
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library