Master’s Thesis on the Occurrence of Floating Sargassum Algae in the Sargasso Sea and the Associated Fauna – Deadline when position is filled

Background The Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic is an oceanic region, where huge amounts of floating, holo-pelagic seaweeds of the genus Sargassum accumulate in the sub-tropical convergence. The floating Sargassum thalli are inhabited by a characteristic and diverse fauna of rafting species. About 70 samples of floating Sargassum have been collected on a recent expedition of the German research…