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Progress in understanding harmful algal blooms: paradigm shifts and new technologies for research, monitoring and management
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posted on 2023-05-17, 09:44 authored by Anderson, DM, Cembella, AD, Gustaaf HallegraeffGustaaf HallegraeffThe public health, tourism, fisheries, and ecosystem impacts from harmful algal blooms (HABs) have all increased over the past few decades. This has led to heightened scientific and regulatory attention, and the development of many new technologies and approaches for research and management. This, in turn, is leading to significant paradigm shifts with regard to, e.g., our interpretation of the phytoplankton species concept (strain variation), the dogma of their apparent cosmopolitanism, the role of bacteria and zooplankton grazing in HABs, and our approaches to investigating the ecological and genetic basis for the production of toxins and allelochemicals. Increasingly, eutrophication and climate change are viewed and managed as multifactorial environmental stressors that will further challenge managers of coastal resources and those responsible for protecting human health. Here we review HAB science with an eye toward new concepts and approaches, emphasizing, where possible, the unexpected yet promising new directions that research has taken in this diverse field.
History
Publication title
Annual Review Marine Science 2012Volume
4Pagination
143-176ISSN
1941-1405Department/School
Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesPublisher
Annual ReviewPlace of publication
United StatesRights statement
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