- Phycology
Phycology (from Greek _gr. φύκος, "phykos", "seaweed"; and _gr. -λογία, "-logia") or algology (from
Latin _la. "alga", also "seaweed"), a subdiscipline ofbotany , is the scientific study of algae. Algae are important as primary producers in aquaticecosystem s. Most algae are eukaryotic, photosynthetic organisms that live in a wet environment. They are distinguished from the higherplant s by a lack of trueroot s, stems or leaves. Many species are single-celled and microscopic (includingphytoplankton and othermicroalgae ); many others aremulticellular to one degree or another, some of these growing to large size (for example,seaweeds such askelp and "Sargassum ").Phycology also includes the study of prokaryotic forms known as blue-green algae or
cyanobacteria . A number of microscopic algae also occur as symbionts inlichens .A "phycologist" is a person who studies
algae as described above. In a similar manner, a mycologist is a person who has been professionally trained inmycology , the study of fungi.ee also
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History of phycology
*Algaculture , the culture of algae
*Algae fuel External links
*http://www.algaefuel.org/ AlgaeFuel research and development company in California bay area.
*http://www.brphycsoc.org/ British Phycological Society
*http://www.intphycsoc.org/ International Phycological Society
*http://www.schweizerbart.de/j/algological-studies/ Algological Studies is an international journal of phycology which publishes peer reviewed scientific papers of international significance from the entire field of algology (phycology)
*http://www.psaalgae.org/ Phycological Society of America
*http://www.algaebase.org/ AlgaeBase
*http://www.seaweed.ie/ Seaweed Site
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