Marine organisms represent nearly half of the worldwide biodiversity; thus, marine macroalgae are known to be good biomonitors of pollution and their ability to accumulate a wide range of pollutants to levels higher than those found in the surrounding waters. These macroalgae species have a unique ability to be used to evaluate metals pollution in marine environments as they have long been known to concentrate metals to levels many times greater to those found in the surrounding waters and they have been used as the metal biomonitors agent around the world. It is known the ways the different industrial effluents might affect the aquatic ecosystem, especially some sensitive macroalgae groups combined with big other stressors like climate change and the anthropogenic activities on coastal areas that is creating an increasing anthropogenic stress worldwide that affect coastal habitats, but very little was then known about the mechanisms of uptake and excretion of metals by species used as biomonitors. However, the biomonitoring using these marine organisms is less developed in Morocco; hence, the objective of this review is to give an insight and an update to the information about recent works on macroalgae biomonitoring in Morocco in the purpose of valorization of the Moroccan macroalgae species in the biomonitoring programs in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
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number = {2},
pages = {99-108},
doi = {10.11648/j.ijnrem.20220702.15},
url = {https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijnrem.20220702.15},
eprint = {https://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.ijnrem.20220702.15},
abstract = {Marine organisms represent nearly half of the worldwide biodiversity; thus, marine macroalgae are known to be good biomonitors of pollution and their ability to accumulate a wide range of pollutants to levels higher than those found in the surrounding waters. These macroalgae species have a unique ability to be used to evaluate metals pollution in marine environments as they have long been known to concentrate metals to levels many times greater to those found in the surrounding waters and they have been used as the metal biomonitors agent around the world. It is known the ways the different industrial effluents might affect the aquatic ecosystem, especially some sensitive macroalgae groups combined with big other stressors like climate change and the anthropogenic activities on coastal areas that is creating an increasing anthropogenic stress worldwide that affect coastal habitats, but very little was then known about the mechanisms of uptake and excretion of metals by species used as biomonitors. However, the biomonitoring using these marine organisms is less developed in Morocco; hence, the objective of this review is to give an insight and an update to the information about recent works on macroalgae biomonitoring in Morocco in the purpose of valorization of the Moroccan macroalgae species in the biomonitoring programs in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.},
year = {2022}
}
TY - JOUR T1 - Marine Macroalgae as Bioindicators and the Application in Moroccan Coastlines: A Review AU - Younes Boundir AU - Mustapha Hasni AU - Fatima Rafiq AU - Mohamed Cheggour AU - Ricardo Haroun AU - Ouafa Cherifi Y1 - 2022/06/27 PY - 2022 N1 - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijnrem.20220702.15 DO - 10.11648/j.ijnrem.20220702.15 T2 - International Journal of Natural Resource Ecology and Management JF - International Journal of Natural Resource Ecology and Management JO - International Journal of Natural Resource Ecology and Management SP - 99 EP - 108 PB - Science Publishing Group SN - 2575-3061 UR - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijnrem.20220702.15 AB - Marine organisms represent nearly half of the worldwide biodiversity; thus, marine macroalgae are known to be good biomonitors of pollution and their ability to accumulate a wide range of pollutants to levels higher than those found in the surrounding waters. These macroalgae species have a unique ability to be used to evaluate metals pollution in marine environments as they have long been known to concentrate metals to levels many times greater to those found in the surrounding waters and they have been used as the metal biomonitors agent around the world. It is known the ways the different industrial effluents might affect the aquatic ecosystem, especially some sensitive macroalgae groups combined with big other stressors like climate change and the anthropogenic activities on coastal areas that is creating an increasing anthropogenic stress worldwide that affect coastal habitats, but very little was then known about the mechanisms of uptake and excretion of metals by species used as biomonitors. However, the biomonitoring using these marine organisms is less developed in Morocco; hence, the objective of this review is to give an insight and an update to the information about recent works on macroalgae biomonitoring in Morocco in the purpose of valorization of the Moroccan macroalgae species in the biomonitoring programs in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. VL - 7 IS - 2 ER -
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