A team of scientists from Ruđer Bošković Institute – Center for marine research in Rovinj under the lead of Dr. Ljiljana Iveša have successfully grown young Gongolaria barbata algae in a lab in order to assess the restoration viability for this protected species. This is the first such experiment done in Croatia. “These brown algae form forests from the intertidal down to about 15 m deep in the Northern Adriatic.
The shallowest of these algal forests are rapidly disappearing mostly due to habitat destruction; usually the transformation of natural, rocky coast into the artificial pebble beaches, even though the algae is listed as a strictly protected species under the Nature conservation law in Croatia. It appears that the marine forests are faced with the same problem as the terrestrial ones and that is human negligence.
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