What explains the diversity of algae?

While evolving, some representatives of algae mastered a variety of living environments. Now some of them live on damp tree trunks, rocks and rocky walls. There are known types of Chlamydomonas that can live and reproduce on the surface of snow, on the skin of polar bears, in the hot springs of Kamchatka. Assimilating new environments of life, algae modified, adapting to a new “home”. Therefore, the variety of algae species is so great.