The intensive use of synthetic herbicides over the past 50 years has led to a number of
deleterous impacts on the terrestrial and aquatic environment and is a serious challenge to …

Cyanobacteria are the most common toxigenic algae in inland waters. Their toxins can affect
the health of aquatic and terrestrial organisms, including humans. Other algal groups, such …

Microplastic pollution is a growing concern globally due to the risks they may pose to
ecological communities. Phytoplankton are key ecological community in aquatic ecosystems …

The ability of certain harmful algal species to produce and release chemicals that inhibit the
growth of co-occurring phytoplankton species, here considered as allelopathy, is closely …

The designation of Texas as a “hotspot” for fish mortalities relative to the other 22 coastal US
states is of serious concern for scientists, resource managers, and the public alike. We …

Since the mid-1980s, fish-killing blooms of Prymnesium parvum spread throughout the USA.
In the south central USA, P. parvum blooms have commonly spanned hundreds of …

Members of Prymnesium belong to the division Haptophyta, class Prymnesiophyceae, order
Prymnesiales and family Prymnesiaceae. As most haptophytes, members of the genus …

Increasingly over the past century, seasonal fish kills associated with toxic blooms of
Prymnesium parvum have devastated aquaculture and native fish, shellfish, and mollusk …

Fish-killing Prymnesium parvum blooms have occurred in south-central USA for at least∼
30 years, with the last decade experiencing recurrent blooms of large magnitude. In the …

The ecological dynamics underlying species invasions have been a major focus of research
in macroorganisms for the last five decades. However, we still know little about the …