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Marine Botany

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Photos: Recruitment Experiment

I set up my experiment in Hopkins Marine Preserve.

Melissa and field experiment

White chicken bag surf grass attached to real surf grass.

artificial and real surf grass

Chicken bag surf grass after in the ocean for a month. Melobesia colonies found along the whole blade and brown color is due to diatoms.

artificial surf grass

Close-up: Melobesia (pink blotches) surrounded by diatoms.

Melobesia on artificial surf grass

Garbage bag surf grass after experiment. 

artificial surf grass

Knowing the width of the fake surf grass (.6cm), the diameter of a large Melobesia colony can be closely determined.

Melobesia

Close-up: Melobesia colony and can see individual cells.

Melobesia cells

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