Disentangling the ecological effects of biological invasions from those of other human disturbances is crucial to understanding the mechanisms underlying ongoing biotic homogenization. We evaluated ...

The Port of San Diego has renewed an emergency declaration meant to help the city fight an invasive algae that has proliferated in its bay. The algae species, scientifically known as Caulerpa ...

While new research shows the exotic seaweed caulerpa may pose less of an ecological threat to New Zealand than previously ...

The Port of San Diego has renewed an emergency declaration in light of an invasive plant continuing to spread in the San Diego Bay. The algae, Caulerpa prolifera, was discovered in the bay in ...

Imagine a piece of paper. Now imagine shredding it into confetti and scattering it to the wind. Now imagine each piece of confetti growing into a new piece of paper. Now shred those new pieces and ...

The Government has awarded $129,000 to Northland Regional Council to help cover the cost of removing seaweed that washed up on the region's beaches ...

A new bill prohibiting the sale, transport and possession of any species under the Caulerpa genus in California has just been signed into law late last month. The genus includes both Caulerpa ...

A Waiheke Island iwi are calling on Aotearoa to act swiftly as the destructive caulerpa seaweed, known to smother shell fish, invades its local waters. Ngāti Paoa have taken action by placing a rāhui ...

A map showing the areas of newly-discovered exotic Caulerpa off Urupukapuka, Motukiekie and Moturua Islands. They are indicated with the small orange lines. An existing Biosecurity New Zealand ...

Biologists used the world’s largest single-celled organism, an aquatic alga called Caulerpa taxifolia, to study the nature of structure and form in plants. It is a single cell that can grow to a ...

Te Rāwhiti kuia Makarita Howard and kaumatua Hone Martin are united in their wish to get rid of caulerpa’s threat to the Bay of Islands. Photo / Susan Botting Boaties are now banned from anchoring ...

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