Farming of seaweeds

Seaweed Sustainability: Food and Non-Food Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 27-59

  Radulovich, Ricardo ^a   Neori, Amir ^b   Valderrama, Diego ^c   Reddy, C R K ^d   Cronin, Holly ^e,f   Forster, John ^g  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR MARICULTURE   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d CSIR CENTRAL SALT AND MARINE CHEMICALS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^g Forster Consulting Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Aquatic agriculture; Climate change; Coastal; Food production; Free floating; Macroalgae; Sea farming; Seaweed cultivation; Seaweed harvesting; Water shortage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943255915     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-418697-2.00003-9     Document Type: Chapter

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