The impacts of climate change on ecosystems are highly uncertain but potentially profound.
One such impact may be the emergence of extensive mats of seaweed (macroalgae), due to …

One characteristic of global change is an increase in the frequency and magnitude of algae
blooms. Although a large body of work has documented severe ecological impacts, such as …

Since 2011, large influxes of a brown macroalgae (pelagic sargassum seaweed) have
proliferated across the Tropical Atlantic basin, its dispersal and seasonality theorized to be …

The human dimension is one major source of uncertainty in the management of social-
ecological systems such as fisheries. Agent-based models (ABMs) can help to reduce these …

Mass accumulations of pelagic sargassum (Sargassum natans and S. fluitans) in the
Tropical Atlantic, across the Caribbean and off the coast of West Africa, are causing …

The harmful impacts of the ongoing Sargassum invasions in the Atlantic Ocean include fish
kills, skin and eye irritation, beach fouling, and declines in fisheries and tourism in West …

The Sargassum have become a cyclical phenomenon that generates ecological, economic,
and social problems in the Caribbean. The situation becomes more serious in a context of …

Sargassum events have been an increasingly influential phenomenon in the Caribbean
region in recent years, with correspondingly growing attention from news and social media …

Pelagic sargassum blooming in the Tropical Atlantic has been linked to the mass shoreline
inundations observed over the last decade in Caribbean and West African countries. Since …

The current study examines the willingness to pay or contribute labour hours in the control
Sargassum invasion in Ghana. The main objective of the study was to estimate how much …