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Nature 406, 447 (3 August 2000) | doi:10.1038/35020226

Researchers criticize response to killer algae

Rex Dalton

Concerns are being raised about initial efforts to combat the first outbreak on the American Pacific coast of an ecologically damaging marine alga, Caulerpa taxifolia, which has already wreaked havoc in the Mediterranean Sea.Marine biologists are criticizing the absence of the comprehensive research programme that they say is needed to counter the C. taxifolia