5 articles
Nori farming runs on Pyropia's strange two-stage life: a blade at sea and a filament hidden in shells. How the biology drives a billion-sheet industry.
Naomi Reyes ·
Beneath every kelp forest sleeps an invisible reserve of microscopic filaments. How gametophyte seed banks form, persist and wake — the forest's hidden memory.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Most reef fish and invertebrates begin life adrift as larvae. Learn the feeding strategies, settlement cues and dispersal lotteries that decide who reaches the reef.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Between every kelp forest and its next generation sits an invisible, few-celled filament: the gametophyte. Its biology decides recruitment, resilience and hatchery success.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
How kelp alternates between a visible sporophyte forest and a microscopic gametophyte generation — and why that hidden half decides whether forests recover.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·