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Sargassum muticum - Japans bessenwier
VLIZ Alien Species Consortium (2024). Sargassum muticum - Japans bessenwier, in: Geïntroduceerde niet-inheemse soorten in het Belgisch deel van de Noordzee en aanpalende estuaria anno 2024. VLIZ Special Publication, 93: pp. 111-119
In: Verleye, T.J. et al. (2024). Geïntroduceerde niet-inheemse soorten in het Belgisch deel van de Noordzee en aanpalende estuaria anno 2024. VLIZ Special Publication, 93. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ): Oostende. 826 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.48470/96, more
In: VLIZ Special Publication. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ): Oostende. ISSN 1377-0950, more
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VLIZ Alien Species Consortium (2022). Sargassum muticum. Niet-inheemse soorten in het Belgisch deel van de Noordzee en aanpalende estuaria = Non-indigenous species from the Belgian part of the North Sea and estuaria. VLIZ Alien Species Consortium (VLIZ): Oostende. Diff. pag. pp., more

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    Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt, 1955 [WoRMS]

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  • Niet-inheemse soorten in het Belgisch deel van de Noordzee en omliggende estuaria, more

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  • VLIZ Alien Species Consortium, more

Abstract
    Japanese wireweed Sargassum muticum is native to the coasts of Japan, Russia, Korea and China. This brown seaweed got imported to Europe with Japanese oysters (either coming from Asia or a with Japanese wireweed infected Canadian broodstock). Although Japanese wireweed has been regularly washed ashore since the 1970s, the first attached specimens were found in 1999 in the Port of Zeebrugge. In areas where Japanese wireweed has successfully invaded (not in Belgium), it displaces native species due to its rapid growth. On the other hand, floating seaweed assemblages support a rich community of marine organisms that use the seaweed as a source of food, shelter, foraging area or attachment surface.

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