Common bladder wrack
Bladderwrack, Rockweed; scientific name: Fucus vesiculosus
Photo: UPB-Projektgruppe Trier
Common brown alga of the coastal areas of the North and Baltic Sea
Common bladder wrack (rockweed, or brown alga) is one of the macrophytic alga which have long been used in monitoring programmes as indicators of accumulation. As one of the most widespread algae in the northern hemisphere, it lends itself particularly well to the comparative analysis of coastal water pollution.
The forked thallus is used as a specimen. Sampling takes place every two months.
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Sampling area
| NP Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft | National Park in the largest brackish water (Bodden) habitat of the world. |
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| BR/NP Wattenmeere | National park in the world largest connected sand and mud flats. |
Analytes
| Metals | Eighty percent of all elements on earth are metals |
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| Nonmetals | Only eighteen elements in the periodic table |
| Polycyclic musks | Class of synthetic fragrances |
| Supplementary parameters | Additional information for the interpretation of contamination data |
Sampling period
1985 - 2010
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Literature
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Morphologische und genetische Untersuchungen an den Probenarten Miesmuschel (Mytilus edulis) und Blasentang (Fucus vesiculosus) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Hybridisierungseffekten
Quack, Markus; Kosuch, Joachim
Trier: Universität Trier, Fachbereich VI – Biogeographie, 2005. - 170, 2005