[1] Species within Chlorodendrales live in both marine and fresh water habitats, occupying both benthic and planktonic food webs.

Species within Chlorodendrales are found in marine and freshwater ecosystems around the world, including locations such as the salt plains of Goa, India.

[4] This leads to what has been classified as "blooms," which is the rapid increase in algae numbers during the spring and autumn months because of high light activity and the turnover of nutrients within the water column.

[1] The increase in knowledge about the morphological and ultrastructural features of flagellar scales, and the ability to identify species as a result, has been due to the development of advanced microscopy and staining techniques.

[1] Researchers have collected and analyzed molecular data from 13 prasinophyte taxa to better construct the phylogenetic relationship of early branching green alga.

[5] Phylogenetic analysis of the small subunit ribosomal-RNA sequence was performed using distance, parsimony, and likelihood statistical tests.

[5] The most parsimonious tree created suggests that the Chlorodendrales lineage is a very early diverging group of "core Chlorophytes," of which there are four clades.