{"id":4378,"date":"2011-06-07T17:49:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T01:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2011-06-07T17:49:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T01:49:03","slug":"algae-growing-on-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/06\/07\/algae-growing-on-algae\/","title":{"rendered":"Algae growing on Algae!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/06\/ctc32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4380\" title=\"Colpomenia on rhodolith\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/06\/ctc32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/06\/ctc32.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/06\/ctc32-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have seen our blog before you may have stumbled across the mention of pink tumble weeds of the sea. \u00a0Rhodoliths are calcareous (like coral, or teeth) algae and form large beds of many pink, branchy, tumbleweed like individuals. \u00a0Our very own Paul Tompkins defended his thesis on rhodoliths in Catalina May 19th. \u00a0Check this out (<a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/05\/15\/a-rhodolith-thesis-defense-thursday-may-19th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thesis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/06\/03\/a-tiny-horse-in-the-water\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seahorses<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/04\/23\/drop-in-to-mlml-open-house-rhodoliths-microscope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open house<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/students\/kristin-meagher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kristin<\/a>\u00a0or just type rhodolith in the search bar) for our previous blogs on rhodoliths.<\/p>\n<p>In looking for algae in rhodolith beds in Baja, during the MLML&#8217;s Spring Ecology of the Gulf of California class, I found that the other algae in rhodolith beds actually grew on rhodoliths, who are algae themselves. \u00a0This means that algae is growing on algae! \u00a0Many different species were seen growing on rhodoliths such as the brown balloon like Colpomenia (pictured above) and the brown net like Hydroclathrus (pictured below). \u00a0As you can see it was an algae party at some sites in Baja.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4381\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/06\/img_9712.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4381\" title=\"algae on rhodoliths\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/06\/img_9712.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/06\/img_9712.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/06\/img_9712-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/06\/img_9712-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">i flipped these algae over and found they were attached to rhodoliths, who are algae themselves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have seen our blog before you may have stumbled across the mention of pink tumble weeds of the sea. \u00a0Rhodoliths are calcareous (like coral, or teeth) algae and form large beds of many pink, branchy, tumbleweed like individuals. \u00a0Our very own Paul Tompkins defended his thesis on rhodoliths in Catalina May 19th. \u00a0Check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}