calcareous algae

[kal′ker·ē·əs ′al·jē]

(botany)

Algae that grow on limestone or in soil impregnated with lime.

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Other calcareous algae are an hitherto undescribed, hand-mirror- or key-shaped species of Apidium (henceforth Apidium sp.

Typology and fossil assemblage of Sandbian (Ordovician) 'baksteenkalk': an erratic silicified limestone of Baltic origin from the northeastern Netherlands and adjacent areas of Germany

In this study, nineteen genera and twelve species of benthic foraminifera, one genus of planktic foraminifera, three genera and four species of calcareous algae and Lingulogavelinella arnagerensis assemblage zone were identified.

Biostratigraphy, depositional environment and sequence stratigraphy of Late Cretaceous clastic-evaporite-carbonate deposits, east of Central Iran, Bajestan

bryozoans, tube worms) but also forming dense canopies sheltering understory calcareous algae.

DBL-OA: Living in the diffusive boundary layer of seaweeds a potential refuge habitat from oceanacidification

Treatments involved the addition of a calcium source to the concentrate, either limestone (LI) (calcitic limestone, Iguatama, Brazil) or a product derived from calcareous algae (CA) (Top buffer[R] Sanphar, Campinas, Brazil), with or without the presence of monensin (MO) (Bovensin[R] Phibro, Guarulhos, Brazil).

Use of calcareous algae and monensin in Nellore cattle subjected to an abrupt change in diet/Produto a base de algas calcarias e monensina na transicao abrupta para dietas com elevada proporcao de concentrado para bovinos Nelore

The functional groups were determined following Steneck & Dethier (1994): a) foliose algae, b) filamentous algae, c) corticated foliose algae, d) corticated algae, e) articulated calcareous algae, and d) crustose algae.

Evaluacion inicial de las comunidades costeras de los Parques Marinos en la Isla Robinson Crusoe

Forms of green algae mainly calcified are recognized as skeletal calcareous algae.

Fossilized microbial and algal textures in post eocene lacustrine zeolite tuff sequence, G. Abu Treifiya, Cairo-Suez road, Egypt

Coronado and Rodriguez (2009) recognized syringoporoid corals in the algal-mounds of Cosgaya Formation in Cantabria (Spain) where they occur associated with calcareous algae, chaetetids and rugose corals.

Carboniferous auloporids from the Iberian Peninsula: palaeocology, diversity, and spatio-temporal distribution

Among bigger algal species, tough cement makers called crustose calcareous algae help hold a reef together and create ridges that withstand pounding waves.

Helpful algae

Plate 2: Calcareous algae of the Kuh-e-Surmeh section.

Microbiostratigraphy and lithostratigraphy of Fahliyan and Gadvan formations in Kuh-e-Surmeh (Zagros Basin, Southwest Iran)

The important fossils groups are found in SML are foraminifera (large, small benthic foraminifera), calcareous algae, benthic sessile organisms (corals, bryozoans), and shell-bearing organisms with valves (brachiopods, mollusks and multi-plate shells (echinoderms).

Microfaunal Assemblage of the Sui Main Limestone from Sui Gas Field, Pakistan

In Brazil, most of the reefs present tiny calcareous formations that grow on sandstone rocks whose main bioconstructors are encrusting calcareous algae, vermetid molluscs and few corals (Maida and Ferreira, 1997; Castro and Pires, 2001).

Spatial distribution of epibenthic molluscs on a sandstone reef in the Northeast of Brazil/Distribuicao espacial de moluscos epibentonicos em um recife arenitico no Nordeste do Brasil

Paleontologists eventually settled on the two most likely relatives--sponges (which are often, but not universally, considered animals) and calcareous algae (organisms simpler than true higher plants).

"Sunflowers" of the ancient seas: not clearly plant or animal, these enigmatic fossils confounded scientists for more than a century

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