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Harmful Algae from Brown Tides in Texas Now Appearing in Florida Waters
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Brown tide in the Florida Indian River Lagoon system. Credit: Florian Koch. The study discusses the potential for further expansion of the range of A ...
Harmful Algal Blooms: NOAA State of the Science Fact Sheet
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Harmful algal blooms (HABs) occur when algae or cyanobacteria produce toxic or harmful effects on people, fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and birds ...
First Florida Brown Tide Algal Bloom in Indian River and Mosquito ...
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An ongoing NCCOS-funded investigation by Dr. Christopher Gobler at Stony Brook University has genetically identified the algal species Aureoumbra ...
Ecosystem disruptive algal blooms of the brown tide species ...
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Brown tides of the pelagophytes Aureococcus anophagefferens Hargraves et Sieburth and Aureoumbra lagunensis DeYoe et Stockwell have formed ecosystem ...
Ocean Acidification Promotes Disruptive and Harmful Algal Blooms on Our ...
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The general decline in ocean pH (i.e., more acidic conditions) from the increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) is well documented. Also ...
Genes Reveal Secrets to Preventing Harmful Brown Tide Blooms
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Brown tide, a harmful algal species that annually plagues mid-Atlantic shellfisheries, owes its success to genes that help it thrive in shallow ...
New Study Toward a Novel Approach for Controlling Harmful Algal Blooms
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Alginate is a non-toxic substance extracted from brown algae and is widely used to encapsulate pharmaceuticals due to its ability to form porous gels ...
Indian River Lagoon algae: Harmful algae devastate Indian River Lagoon ...
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The opaque coloring, however, is caused by microscopic algae plants thriving in the lagoon’s water. Scientists say the algae’s explosive growth ...
Algae plaguing the Indian River Lagoon was identified recently by ...
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Scientists have preliminary confirmation that the algae clobbering vital sea grass and many kinds of popular fish in the Indian River Lagoon is a ...
Harmful Algal Blooms in Coastal Waters: Options for Prevention, Control ...
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This report is the product of a panel of experts in the science of blooms of unicellular marine algae which can cause mass mortalities in a variety of ...
Causes of Harmful Algal Blooms and Toxicity - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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Algae and cyanobacteria are considered to be the basis of most freshwater and marine food webs. While many of these cyanobacterial and algal species ...
Public Reporting Tool Helps Long Island’s Suffolk County Track Harmful ...
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Brown tides and other harmful algal blooms (HABs) are becoming a recurrent seasonal issue in the coastal waters of New York’s Suffolk County. A NCCOS ...
NOAA Assesses Policy Gaps in Sargassum Management
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Sargassum is a brown, floating algae that provides food, protection, and breeding grounds for hundreds of ocean animals and is ecologically beneficial ...
Linking Biogeochemistry to Harmful Algal Bloom Nutritional Physiology ...
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The Long Island Brown Tide (LIBT) threatens shellfish and sea grasses in mid-Atlantic estuaries. LIBT-specific gene expression assays are being ...
Harmful Algal Bloom Action Plan Developed for Long Island
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A variety of toxic algal blooms occur around Long Island including red tides (Alexandrium), brown tides (Aureococcus), fish-killing HABs ...
Marine Benthic Algae of Puerto Rico Part I Published
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Ballantine, D. L. and N. E. Aponte. 1997. A Revised Checklist of the Benthic Marine Algae Known to Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 33 ...
Excess Algae Responsible for Hotspots of Increased Ocean Acidification
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It showed that the process of eutrophication—the production of excess algae from increased nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus—is a large, often ...
Working with State to Document First Occurrence of Harmful Karenia ...
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Light micrograph of K. mikimotoi taken from a bloom sample.. Starting in late Sept. 2013, a bloom of the phytoplankton Karenia mikimotoi began ...
Toxic Algae Not New to Puget Sound, Favor Rising Temperatures
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University and NOAA investigators have found seed-like cysts of the toxic algaAlexandrium at all depths in a sediment core taken from Sequim Bay in ...
Toxic Algae and Their Seaweed Hosts May Predict Ciguatera Fish ...
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New research shows that different Caribbean species of Gambierdiscus — the microscopic marine algae most often associated with ciguatera fish ...