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  2. Algal nutrient solution - Wikipedia

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    Algae is an alternative for gelatin and can also be a much more natural/healthier source for creating low carb, gluten and fat-free foods. [4] Algae presents a distinct advantage over traditional food and feed sources, as it does not compete with them and does not require changes in land use.

  3. Marine food web - Wikipedia

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    The pelagic food web, showing the central involvement of marine microorganisms in how the ocean imports nutrients from and then exports them back to the atmosphere and ocean floor. A marine food web is a food web of marine life. At the base of the ocean food web are single-celled algae and other plant-like organisms known as phytoplankton.

  4. Algaculture - Wikipedia

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    Dulse is one of many edible algae. Algaculture may become an important part of a healthy and sustainable food system [11]. Several species of algae are raised for food. While algae have qualities of a sustainable food source, "producing highly digestible proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates, and are rich in essential fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals" and e.g. having a high protein ...

  5. Food web - Wikipedia

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    A freshwater aquatic food web. The blue arrows show a complete food chain (algae → daphnia → gizzard shad → largemouth bass → great blue heron). A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.

  6. Algae - Wikipedia

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    Aquaria and ponds can be filtered using algae, which absorb nutrients from the water in a device called an algae scrubber, also known as an algae turf scrubber. [ 130 ] [ 131 ] Agricultural Research Service scientists found that 60–90% of nitrogen runoff and 70–100% of phosphorus runoff can be captured from manure effluents using a ...

  7. Newton High School seniors experiment with algae's viability ...

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    Their research showed production of algae is a carbon-neutral process and does not take up human food sources. ... the amount of nutrients inside the solution it is grown in and the pH levels of ...

  8. Seagrass - Wikipedia

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    Monocots are grass and grass-like flowering plants (angiosperms), the seeds of which typically contain only one embryonic leaf or cotyledon. [12] Terrestrial plants evolved perhaps as early as 450 million years ago from a group of green algae. [13] Seagrasses then evolved from terrestrial plants which migrated back into the ocean.

  9. Seaweed - Wikipedia

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    Seaweed is lifted out of the top of an algae scrubber/cultivator, to be discarded or used as food, fertilizer, or skin care. Alginates are used in industrial products such as paper coatings, adhesives, dyes, gels, explosives and in processes such as paper sizing, textile printing, hydro-mulching and drilling.