Ecological dynamics of green macroalgae Ulvales in Ria Formosa: a tale of blooms and shapes

Aníbal, J.

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Aníbal, J.

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The History of Science is the sum of the stories of men and women that produced it. They spent their lives gathering information, that once treated becomes knowledge and it is compiled in articles and books. Many stories in Science start with a bang, but this tale started with a humble click, back in 1988. In a cold winter morning, a very tall man stood alone in a windy road, near a Ria Formosa’s mudflat taking photographs in low tide, apparently to nowhere. That same man, called Martin Sprung, repeated this monthly ritual, in the same spot, for the next years. Martin was a German zoologist, that came to the Algarve in the eighties to implement a German-Portuguese project to study the biology of Ria Formosa, which was very important in the development of the Marine Biology and Fisheries graduation course, in the recently created University of Algarve.