GRID product detail

Réagir: Biodiversity - CAULERPA TAXIFOLIA


TypePoster

Duration: May 2007 - on-going

A genetically altered seaweed is colonising large areas of the Mediterranean marine
environment in an uncontrolled way. Its unusual morphological and
physiological characteristics followed exposure to chemicals
and ultraviolet light : it adapts, colonises, and threatens multiple biotopes.


Data credit(s): Pascal Peduzzi (UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Geneva), Stephane Kluser (UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Geneva)

GRID unit: Global Change and Vulnerability

UNEP region: Europe/Mediterranean

UNEP priorities:  Ecosystems Management

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