The presence of microplastics in marine environments disrupts carbon cycles and contributes to climate change, affecting ...

If the pinkish-red color appears somewhat intimidating, it's with good reason. Steichen warns this type of phytoplankton does not produce toxins. However, they can have high concentrations of ammonia ...

and dinoflagellates. To borrow and mangle a quote from one of my favorite movie characters — Annie Savoy in Bull Durham — if you have three phytoplankton, they can’t do much. But if you have 300 ...

This can be as a result of feeding on biotoxin producing phytoplankton. There are currently three groups of regulated biotoxins for shellfish. These can cause: paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) ...

Algae such as diatoms along with dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria ... He explained that though phytoplankton is the foundation of the marine food chain, its unchecked growth, often triggered ...

The phytoplankton population in coral reef areas is rich in species, with diatoms constituting the main group, followed by highly diversified dinoflagellates. The abundance of phytoplankton tends to ...

Dinoflagellates are a common group of the phytoplankton in all aquatic habitats (Hackett et al., 2004). Under marine conditions, they make a substantial contribution to the primary production of the ...