Jorge Carlos Ruíz Ruíz, PhD – Professor, School of Nutrition, Universidad Anáhuac Mayab, Yucatán, México

Series: Marine Science and Technology; Marine and Freshwater Biology
BISAC: SCI039000; SCI020000; TEC010010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52305/LJTJ7458

Over the past decade, the massive and recurrent arrival of pelagic Sargassum has become one of the most visible environmental challenges affecting the Caribbean. What was once primarily recognized as an offshore ecological resource has acquired a very different significance when enormous quantities of biomass accumulate along coastlines. These events affect coastal ecosystems, tourism, fisheries, infrastructure, water quality, and potentially human health, making Sargassum influxes much more than a beach-cleaning problem. This volume, Sargassum Influxes in the Caribbean, brings together researchers working across environmental science, toxicology, biotechnology, coastal management, human health, biomass processing, and sustainability. Rather than approaching Sargassum from a single disciplinary perspective, the book examines the sequence of processes that occurs from the arrival and accumulation of biomass to its decomposition, environmental interactions, management, treatment, and potential transformation.

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