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The performance of spray-irrigated Ulva lactuca (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) as a crop and as a biofilter of fishpond effluents

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dc.creator Msuya, Flower E.
dc.creator Neori, Amir
dc.date 2016-03-07T13:53:10Z
dc.date 2016-03-07T13:53:10Z
dc.date 2010
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-18T11:12:26Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-18T11:12:26Z
dc.identifier Msuya F.E. and Neori A. 2010. The performance of spray irrigated Ulva lactuca (ULVOPHYCEAE, CHLOROPHYTA) as a crop and as a biofilter of fishpond effluents. Journal of Phycology, 46: 813–817.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/652
dc.identifier 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2010.00843.x
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/9236
dc.description The seaweed Ulva lactuca L. was spray cultured by mariculture effluents in a mattress-like layer, held in air on slanted boards by plastic netting. Air-agitated seaweed suspension tanks were the reference. Growth rate, yield, and ammonia-N removal rate were 11.8% Æ d)1, 171 g fresh weight (fwt) Æ m)2 Æ d)1, and 5 g N Æ m)2 Æ d)1, respectively, by the spray-cultured U. lactuca, and 16.9% Æ d)1, 283 g fwt Æ m)2 Æ d)1, and 7 g N Æ m)2 Æ d)1, respectively, by the tank U. lactuca. Biomass protein content was similar in both treatments. Dissolved oxygen in the fishpond effluent water was raised by >3 mg Æ L)1 and pH by up to half a unit, upon passage through both culture systems. The data suggest that spray-irrigation culture of U. lactuca in this simple green-mattress-like system supplies the seaweed all it needs to grow and biofilter at rates close to those in standard air-agitated tank culture.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Phycological Society of America
dc.subject biofilter
dc.subject macroalgae
dc.subject seaweed culture technology
dc.subject seaweed production cost
dc.subject spray culture
dc.title The performance of spray-irrigated Ulva lactuca (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) as a crop and as a biofilter of fishpond effluents
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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