Allelopathic inhibition of competing phytoplankton by North American strains of the toxic dinoflagellate, Alexandrium fundyense: Evidence from field experiments, laboratory experiments, and bloom events

Harmful Algae

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages 106-116

  Hattenrath Lehmann, Theresa K ^a   Gobler, Christopher J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexandrium; Allelopathy; Aureococcus anophagefferens; Brown tide; Harmful algal blooms; North American strains; PSP; Red tide

Indexed keywords

ALEXANDRIUM; ALEXANDRIUM FUNDYENSE; ALGAE; AUREOCOCCUS ANOPHAGEFFERENS; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; RHODOMONAS SALINA; THALASSIOSIRA PSEUDONANA; THALASSIOSIRA WEISSFLOGII;

EID: 82455179487     PISSN: 15689883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

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