But algae researcher Wu Chun-tsung, a research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of Botany, takes a more cautious attitude, saying that manmade pollution is probably a greater factor than climate in causing changes in the distribution of coastal macroalgae.
研究藻類的中研院植物所研究員吳俊宗也持謹慎態度認為，沿海大型藻類分佈的改變，恐怕人為污染因素大於氣候效應。