Flow–seaweed interactions : a laboratory study using blade models

Acknowledgements The work described in this publication was undertaken during the Ph.D. study of Davide Vettori at the University of Aberdeen funded by a scholarship from the Northern Research Partnership, Scotland. The authors gratefully acknowledge the help of Michael Boddie, Elisa Bozzolan, Euan Judd, and Henry Lecallet in collecting extensive data sets used in this publication. Stuart Cameron and Euan Judd greatly assisted in developing video analysis routines which is highly appreciated. The authors also thank technicians Roy Gillanders and Benjamin Stratton for thorough technical support of the experiments and required infrastructure. Two anonymous reviewers provided insightful comments that have been gratefully incorporated in the final version.Peer reviewedPostprin