Publication Date:
2022-05-26
Description:
Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2011. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Annual Reviews for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Annual Review of Marine Science 4 (2012): 143-176, doi:10.1146/annurev-marine-120308-081121.
Description:
The public health, tourism, fisheries and ecosystem impacts from harmful algal blooms
(HABs) have all increased over the last 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 towards new concepts and
approaches, emphasizing, where possible, the unexpected yet promising new directions
that research has taken in this diverse field.
Description:
Support to DMA was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences (1-P50-ES012742) and the National Science Foundation through the Woods
Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health (OCE-0430724), and by NOAA Grants
NA09NOS4260212 and NA09OAR4320129.
Keywords:
Red tide
;
Shellfish toxicity
;
Fish kills
;
Ecogenomics
;
Monitoring
;
Climate change
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Preprint
Format:
application/pdf
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