The Charles Darwin Foundation-led research holds importance due to the discovery of a new species of this type of alga, previously mostly found in colder waters. María Altamirano, a researcher from the University of Malaga's Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, is part of the scientific tea
The Charles Darwin Foundation-led research holds importance due to the discovery of a newMaría Altamirano, a researcher from theDepartment of Botany and Plant Physiology, is part of the scientific team collaborating on the Charles Darwin Foundation -led Seamounts Project. The project has uncovered a vast kelp forest on the top of a seamount at a depth of approximately 50 meters in the southern Galapagos Islands.
The significance of this research, led by the Charles Darwin Foundation, lies in a new species record of this type of alga that, until now, it has been mostly found in colder waters. Credit: Charles Darwin Foundation/University of Malaga In fact, thanks to the installation of a mechanical claw to the ROV, in 2018 Professor María Altamirano, who was in the archipelago as coordinator of a collaboration project of the University of Malaga, together with the researcher at the University of Granada Julio de la Rosa, were able to analyze specimens of this newly registered alga, “which is essential to determine its taxonomy and is still under study”.
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