FREEZING AND DRYING IN INTERTIDAL ALGAE
Open Access
- 1 October 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin
- Vol. 113 (2), 275-285
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1539085
Abstract
As much as 80% of the water in intertidal marine algae is frozen when exposed to the low air temperatures that regularly occur in nature. The same sp. may lose 90% of their water by ordinary drying during tidal exposure. Metabolism is greatly depressed in both the frozen and dried states. The ability to withstand drying may be related to freezing hardiness. Some extreme conditions in the Arctic are described. Fucus spends many months frozen in the sea ice at temperatures down to 40[degree]C, yet it is capable of photosynthesis immediately upon being thawed out.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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