sargassum

How To Use sargassum In A Sentence

• Ordinarily, the sargassum is a nice, golden color. Marisacat
• Many are planktonic like the diatoms and Sargassum, floating free near the water surface, and being carried along by the surface currents.
• There are more than 50 fish species whose lives are linked to Sargassum, and a myriad of invertebrates, including gastropods, polychaetes, bryozoans, anemones, and sea-spiders.
• That's where lots of stuff that floats ends up, including golden seaweed called sargassum, which is prime feeding ground for lots of animals, including young turtles. In The Line Of Fire: Rare Turtles Near Gulf Flames
• The challenge those sea turtle hatchlings face on their way out to the sargassum weed line and an uncertain future is, as I said before, unimaginable. Rick Cleveland: The Sound and the Fury of Tiny Flippers
• From that stretch of beach they would have to swim 25 to 35 to the sargassum weed line, and once there, they could rest and eat. Rick Cleveland: The Sound and the Fury of Tiny Flippers
• The oil spill occurred just as the two-month spawning season began, and the oil poisoned the waters just as fragile eggs and larvae were set adrift in floating sargassum grass, acres upon acres of which were destroyed by oil. Peter Lehner: Congress, the Mabus Report, and Why Gulf Restoration Matters for All of Us
• The Gulf is far from clean and the spill still poses a danger to sea turtles, but Schroeder said there have been encouraging signs in the floating seaweed patches, known as sargassum, where young turtles in the gulf live and feed. Scientific American
• Today Sargassum reproduces asexually by vegetative budding of new shoots that eventually break off to form new plants.
• There are more than 50 fish species whose lives are linked to Sargassum, and a myriad of invertebrates, including gastropods, polychaetes, bryozoans, anemones, and sea-spiders.