Maerl beds are sensitive biogenic habitats built by an accumulation of loose-lying, non-geniculate coralline algae.
Cristina Pardo, Lua Lopez, Viviana Peña, Jazmin Hernández-Kantún, Line Le Gall, IgnacioBárbara, Rodolfo Barreiro 2014, 'A multilocus species delimitation reveals a striking number of species of corallinealgae forming Maerl in the OSPAR maritime area.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4128821?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Maerl beds are one of the world's key coastal ecosystems and are threatened by human activities and global change.
Cristina Pardo, Marie-Laure Guillemin, Marie-Laure Guillemin, Viviana Peña, IgnacioBárbara, Myriam Valero, Rodolfo Barreiro 2019, 'Local Coastal Configuration Rather Than Latitudinal Gradient Shape Clonal Diversityand Genetic Structure of Phymatolithon calcareum Maerl Beds in North European Atlantic',Frontiers in Marine Sciencehttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2019.00149/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Our molecular results revealed higher species diversity in associated crustose coralline algae than in maerl-forming species.
Cristina Pardo, Ignacio Bárbara, Rodolfo Barreiro, Viviana Peña 2017, 'Insights into species diversity of associated crustose coralline algae (Corallinophycidae,Rhodophyta) with Atlantic European maerl beds using DNA barcoding', Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madridhttp://rjb.revistas.csic.es/index.php/rjb/article/view/472. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)