Are "green tides" harmful algal blooms? Toxic properties of water-soluble extracts from two bloom-forming macroalgae, Ulva fenestrata and Ulvaria obscura (ulvophyceae)

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 874-879

  Nelson, Timothy A ^a   Lee, Dejah J ^a   Smith, Bridget C ^b  

^a SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelochemicals; Crassostrea gigas; Diatom; Epiphytes; Fucus gardneri; Green tide; Microalgae; Pacific oyster

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; DIATOM; EPIPHYTE; GREEN ALGA; MOLLUSC; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CRASSOSTREA; CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; EUKARYOTA; FENESTRIDA; FUCUS; FUCUS GARDNERI; HALOPHILA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; OSTREIDAE; ULVA; ULVA FENESTRATA; ULVARIA OBSCURA; ULVOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0142063549     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2003.02157.x     Document Type: Article

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