The question of the origin, distribution and fate of the floating seaweed Sargassum has fascinated sailors and scientists from the time of Columbus. Observations from ships are hampered by the large and variable area over which Sargassum is dispersed.
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We present satellite imagery that is interpreted as showing extensive lines of floating Sargassum in the western Gulf of Mexico in the summer of 2005. In spite of frequent reports of floating weed covering extended areas in different parts of the world's ocean, this appears to be the first observation of Sargassum...
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the floating Sargassum found in the Sargasso Sea; these floating pelagic forms are referred to only two species—S. natans (better known as S. bacciferum) ...
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Jul 8, 2009 ... Sea Hares live attached to floating Sargassum weed, feeding on small plant-like animals called hydroids that grow there. Many ...
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The scientific reference is to Jim Gower, Chuanmin Hu, Gary Borstad and Stephanie King, 2006, "Ocean color satellites show extensive lines of floating Sargassum in the Gulf of Mexico," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 44, 3619-3625. Image 2 -
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The seaweed is familiar to offshore fishermen who look for "weed lines" or mats of floating Sargassum where ocean currents meet and fish such as dolphin, wahoo, billfish and other pelagic species often gather to look for food and take shelter in the open ocean.
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Paris, France (ESA) Jun 08, 2007 - Sargassum seaweed, famous in nautical lore for entangling ships in its dense floating vegetation, has been detected from space for the first time thanks to an instrument aboard ESA's environmental satellite, Envisat. ... Marine primary production is the process by which floating vegetation,
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Sargassum, or Gulfweed, is a free-floating brown algae which often washes ashore on Southern beaches. Some of that which washes up comes from the Sargasso Sea, a part of the Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda and the West Indies.
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Sargassum seaweed, famous in nautical lore for entangling ships in its dense floating vegetation, has been detected from space for the first time thanks to an instrument aboard ESA’s environmental satellite, Envisat. ... Marine primary production is the process by which floating vegetation, ... Sargassum in the Gulf of Mexico...
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Sargassum seaweed, famous in nautical lore for entangling ships in its dense floating vegetation, has been detected from space for the first time thanks to an instrument aboard ESA’s environmental satellite, Envisat. ... Marine primary production is the process by which floating vegetation, ... Sargassum in the Gulf of Mexico...
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