Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, México (Jul 2015)

Información General | General Information

Páginas WEB | Web Pages

• Satellite-based Sargassum Watch System (SaWS), University of South Florida - Designed to use satellite data and numerical models to detect and track pelagic Sargassum in near-real time.

• Sargassum Early Advisory System (SEAS-Forecast) - An App created by Texas A&M University, Galveston Campus, that allows to track Seaweed hittings.

• Reporting Site: Pelagic Sargassum in the Caribbean - 2015 - A site create by The University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, to report areas of massive arrival of Sargassum.

• Unprecented Influx Of Pelagic Sargassum Along Caribbean Island Coastlines During 2011

Documentos | Documents

• Doyle, E. and J. Franks. 2015. Sargassum Fact Sheet. Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute

• Sargassum, A Resource Guide for the Caribbean A guide elaborated by the Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism and OBM International to inform the tourist industry, local governments, environmental groups and residents about Sargassum, its impacts, uses, and best practice mitigation and management.

Vídeos | Videos

• CHTA Sustainability WEBINAR No. 5 - Sargassum and the effects of climate change

Reglamentos que aplican en México| Regulations in Mexico

• Lineamientos generales para la remoción del Sargazo de las playas del Caribe Mexicano (SEMARNAT, DGVS, 10 de Julio de 2015)

• Lineamientos técnicos para el bloqueo y retiro del sargazo en la zona marina (SEMARNAT, DGVS, 17 de Agosto de 2015)

• Lineamientos para la limpieza de playa en el Parque Nacional Arrecife de Puerto Morelos (CONANP, Mayo 2015)

• Diersenn HM, Chlus A, Russel B (2015) Hyperspectral discrimination of floating mats of seagrass wrack and the macroalgae Sargassum in coastal waters of Greater Florida Bay using airborne remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment 167: 247-258.

• Gavio B, Rincón-Díaz MN, Santos- Martínez A (2015) Massive quantities of pelagic sargassum on the shores of san andres island, southwestern caribbean. Acta Biológica Colombiana 20(1): 239-241.

• Gower J, Young E, King S (2013) Satellite images suggest a new Sargassum source region in 2011. Remote Sensing Letters 4(8): 764-773.

• Hill, BN (2014) Sargassum Early Advisory System (SEAS): Developing the standard operating procedure of investigating the hourly growth rate of Sargassum while suspended in the neritic coastal waters off of Galveston, Texas. Undergraduate Research Scholar Thesis. 31p.

• Hu C, Feng L, HArdy RF, Hochberg EJ (2015) Spectral and spatial requirements of remote measurements of pelagic Sargassum macroalgae. Remote Sensing Environments 167: 229-246.

• Johnson DR, Ko DS, Franks JS, Moreno P, Sánchez-Rubio G (2013) The Sargassum Invasion of the Eastern Caribbean and Dynamics of the Equatorial North Atlantic. Proc. of the 65th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute. Santa Marta, Colombia.

• Lapointe BE (1995) A comparison of nutrient-limited productivity in Sargassum natans from neritic vs. oceanic waters of the western North Atlantic Ocean. Limnol. Oceanogr. 40(3): 625-633.

• Nordstrom KF, Jackson NL, Freestone AL, Korotky KH, PUleo JA (2012) Effects of beach raking and sand fences on dune dimensions and morphology. Geomorphology 179: 106-115.

• Oyesiku OO, Egunyomi A (2014) Identification of chemical studies of pelagic masses of Sargassum natans (Linnaeus) Gaillon and S. fluitans (Borgessen) Borgesen (brown algae), found offshore in Ondo State, Nigeria. African Journal of Biotechnology 13(10): 1188-1193.

• Pendleton L, Krowicki F, Strosser P, Hallett-Murdoch J (2014) Assessing the value of marine and coastal ecosystem services in the Sargasso Sea. Working Paper EE 14-05. Duke Environmental and Energy Economics Working Paper Series. 41p.

• Williams A, Feagin R, Witme Stafford A (2008) Environental impacts of beach raking of Sargassum spp. on Galveston Island, TX.

• Wischnat S (2013) The potential use of pelagic algae (Sargassum spp. as a supplement to animal nutrition in coastal regions of Costa Rica. M.Sc. Thesis. Universität Hohenheim. 67p.

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