Doughnuts with the Prince
Andrew Sugden, 20 July 2000
Killer Algae: The True Tale of Biological Invasion
by Alexandre Meinesz, translated by Daniel Simberloff.
Chicago, 360 pp., £17.50, December 1999,0 226 51922 8 Show More
by Alexandre Meinesz, translated by Daniel Simberloff.
Chicago, 360 pp., £17.50, December 1999,
“... a total area of more than thirty square kilometres and to a depth of more than a hundred metres. Alexandre Meinesz, a marine biologist from the University of Nice, had his first encounter with the colony of Caulerpa taxifolia beneath the Oceanographic Museum in the late summer of 1989. The museum employee who first discovered the patch of alga had told ... ”