During the summers of 2010 and 2011, the UPV/EHU’s Bentos
Marino group analysed samples of algae populations from five zones and measured
the amount of light present in and the temperature of each zone over the
summer. The research group observed that the algae that displayed the most
signs of stress were from the zones exposed to the most solar radiation. The
results of the research have been published in the Journal of Sea Research.