To evaluate the stability and resilience 1 of coastal ecosystem communities to perturbations
that occurred during the Anthropocene, 2 pre-industrial biodiversity baselines inferred from …

Abstract The Yangtze River Estuary (YRE) is one of the areas in China most severely
affected by harmful algal blooms (HABs). This study explored the distributive patterns of …

The identification of a new suite of toxins, called azaspiracids (AZA), as the cause of human
illnesses after the consumption of shellfish from the Irish west coast in 1995, resulted in …

In the last decade, the known biogeography of nitrogen fixation in the ocean has been
expanded to colder and nitrogen‐rich coastal environments. The symbiotic nitrogen‐fixing …

The naked dinoflagellate Karlodinium veneficum is a cosmopolitan and toxic species that
frequently forms harmful algal blooms (HABs) in coastal waters. This species has been …

Marine sediments host heterogeneous protist communities consisting of both living benthic
microorganisms and planktonic resting stages. Despite their key functions in marine …

Microorganisms are flushed from the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) where they may contribute
towards the nutrient cycling and community compositions of downstream ecosystems. We …

Heterosigma akashiwo (Raphidophyceae) is widely recognized as a species responsible for
harmful algal blooms worldwide. The species has long been speculated to possess a more …

Species of the marine dinoflagellate genus Karenia are known to produce various potent
biotoxins and can form noxious blooms that cause mass mortalities of fish and shellfish. To …

Cyst abundance and identity are essential for understanding and predicting blooms, and for
assessing the dispersal of toxic target dinoflagellate species by natural or human mediated …