Marine algal blooms have complex life cycles; sunlight and wind are as crucial to their growth as nutrients and the presence of predators, like zooplankton. Although researchers have previously ...

Dinoflagellates play crucial roles in aquatic ecosystems, particularly as major contributors to harmful algal blooms ... mechanisms underlying the life cycle transitions and dormancy of ...

Clarissa Anderson, director of the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System, has been keeping tabs on toxic algae blooms off the coast and agreed the timing of this bloom is on the early ...

Algae blooms prevent sunlight reaching other plants. The plants begin to die. Excessive nutrients (nitrates) from fertilisers are flushed from the land into rivers by rainwater. Oxygen levels ...

Though blue-green algae is naturally occurring and even predates human life, having a bloom so late in the year is a lesser-known effect of climate change, Rackliffe said. Algae thrives on hot ...

He said harmful algal blooms (HABs) present severe risks to ... accounting for dinoflagellates' complex life cycles. The scientists discovered 15 species of toxic dinoflagellates (TD) in Hervey ...

An unusually high number of disoriented marine mammals, sickened by a toxic algae bloom, is being found along ... Literally, it's life and death when you interfere and stress them out.” ...

The mammals have signs of domoic acid toxicosis — that’s when algal blooms put out a harmful neurotoxin that can hurt sea life. Most of the sick mammals have come from Malibu, though they’ve ...

has been keeping tabs on toxic algae blooms off the coast and agreed the timing of this bloom is on the early side. Typically, the cycle is spring and summer because the blooms are tied to spring ...