Jayvee Saco, Najeen Arabelle Rula
Rationale
The Verde Island Passage is the world’s center of the center of marine shore fish biodiversity located in the southwest of Luzon Island in the Philippines. The passage was named after an island –Verde Island, which is located in the middle of the passage. Although the passage was famously named after Verde Island studies in macrophytes biodiversity are very scant.
Objectives
This study was carried out to determine the structure and distribution of seaweeds and associated flora using the line transect-quadrat method across three periods ie., the northeast monsoon, summer, and the southwest monsoon.
Accomplishments
- Two fieldwork surveys were conducted under this project. Results of the research project were published in the Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology with the title “Marine macrophyte composition during summer, southwest and northeast monsoons in Verde Island, Batangas City, Batangas, Philippines.”
- The paper was also awarded with a publication incentive award by DOST-PCAARRD.