TY - JOUR
T1 - Marine algal and sea-grass flora of the suez canal (The significance of this flora to the understanding of the recent migration through the canal
AU - Lipkin, Y.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported in part by the Hebrew University -Smithsonian Institution Joint Program "Biota of the Red Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean".
Funding Information:
The author wishes to express his sincere thanks to the authorities of the Israel Defense Forces who made this study possible. I acknowledge the support of the Hebrew University -Smithsonian Institution Joint Program "Biota of the Red Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean", a grant of which financed the field work in January 1969 and the sorting of the material collected. The collections of the late Prof. H. Steinitz made on June 20 and 21, 1967 at El Qantara, Tis'a and Port Taufiq, the collection of Prof. F.D. Por and that of Prof. M. Galun, both made in July 1967 at the Great Bitter Lake, were kindly put at my disposal, for which I thank the collectors. Special thanks are due to Prof. G .F. Papenfuss for critically reading the manuscript and for his very important comments.
PY - 1972
Y1 - 1972
N2 - Seventy-two species of marine plants, all but two of which are algal species, are listed from the Suez Canal water system. Of these, 52 have not been recorded previously from the Suez Canal. Twelve of the newly recorded species are green algae, four are diatoms, eight are brown algae, eight are blue-greens and 21 are red algae. Of the 99 plant species reported from the Suez Canal since it was opened about a century ago, 47 are known from both the eastern Mediterranean and the northern Red Sea, 24 have been reported from the northern Red Sea but not from the eastern Mediterranean, 14 have been reported from the eastern Mediterranean and not from the Red Sea, and 14 have been found in the Suez Canal but not yet in both the eastern Mediterranean and the northern Red Sea. New and previously reported stations in the Suez Canal, as well as ecological remarks and notes on the occurrence of each species in the eastern Mediterranean and the northern Red Sea are given. The nature of Suez Canal flora, the changes in floral assemblage in the Canal, the migration of plant species from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean in the light of the new records from the Suez Canal, and the role of the Canal as a barrier for the migration of algae, are discussed.
AB - Seventy-two species of marine plants, all but two of which are algal species, are listed from the Suez Canal water system. Of these, 52 have not been recorded previously from the Suez Canal. Twelve of the newly recorded species are green algae, four are diatoms, eight are brown algae, eight are blue-greens and 21 are red algae. Of the 99 plant species reported from the Suez Canal since it was opened about a century ago, 47 are known from both the eastern Mediterranean and the northern Red Sea, 24 have been reported from the northern Red Sea but not from the eastern Mediterranean, 14 have been reported from the eastern Mediterranean and not from the Red Sea, and 14 have been found in the Suez Canal but not yet in both the eastern Mediterranean and the northern Red Sea. New and previously reported stations in the Suez Canal, as well as ecological remarks and notes on the occurrence of each species in the eastern Mediterranean and the northern Red Sea are given. The nature of Suez Canal flora, the changes in floral assemblage in the Canal, the migration of plant species from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean in the light of the new records from the Suez Canal, and the role of the Canal as a barrier for the migration of algae, are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1080/00212210.1972.10688372
DO - 10.1080/00212210.1972.10688372
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AN - SCOPUS:0000935373
SN - 0021-2210
VL - 21
SP - 405
EP - 446
JO - Israel Journal of Zoology
JF - Israel Journal of Zoology
IS - 3-4
ER -