Distribution and Ecology
Fucus serratus is found along the Atlantic coast of Europe from Svalbard to Portugal, in the Canary Islands and on the shores of north-east America. It was introduced to Iceland and the Faroes by humans within the last 1000 years where it was first noted in a phycological survey in 1900. It grows very well on slow draining shores where it may occupy up to a third of the area of the entire seashore. It often dominates the rocky parts of the lower shore, exposed or immersed in rock pools, on all but the most exposed shores. “…the littoral zone is characterized especially by such phaeophyta (brown algae) as Ascophylluym, Egregia, Fucus and Laminaria, particularly when the shore is rocky."
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