A 1-D simulation analysis of the development and maintenance of the 2001 red tide of the ichthyotoxic dinoflagellate Karenia brevis on the West Florida shelf

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 41, Issue , 2012, Pages 92-110

  Lenes, J M ^a   Darrow, B P ^a   Walsh, J J ^a   Jolliff, J K ^b   Chen, F R ^a   Weisberg, R H ^a   Zheng, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological modeling; Harmful algae; Karenia brevis; Red tide; West Florida shelf

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; DINOFLAGELLATE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD CHAIN; LYSIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PHYTOPLANKTON; RED TIDE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOXIC ORGANISM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FLORIDA SHELF;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; DINOPHYCEAE; KARENIA BREVIS; TRICHODESMIUM; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM;

EID: 84861337925     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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