Inputs of P are essential for profitable crop and livestock production. However, its export in
watershed runoff can accelerate the eutrophication of receiving fresh waters. The …

The notion of management has undergone many changes during the past century.
Nowadays, management is perceived as “specialized activity to achieve targets.” Skill in …

The last few years have brought about many changes in the field of marine and freshwater
toxins, with advances in analytical technology and the realization that these toxins are a …

Dinoflagellates (Eukaryota; Alveolata; Dinophyceae) are single‐cell eukaryotic
microorganisms implicated in many toxic outbreaks in the marine and estuarine …

With the concentration of poultry production and increase in operation size in several
regions of the US, more manure is applied to agricultural land. This application of manure …

Surface runoff accounts for much of the phosphorus (P) input to and accelerated
eutrophication of the fresh waters. Several states have tried to establish general threshold …

Pfiesteria piscicida is a heterotrophic dinoflagellate widely distributed along the middle
Atlantic shore of the United States and associated with fish kills in the Neuse River (North …

The estuarine genus Pfiesteria has received considerable attention since it was first
identified and proposed to be the causative agent of fish kills along the mid-Atlantic coast in …

(HABs). Dr. Fleming is an occupational and environmental health physician and
epidemiologist; she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public …

In the summer of 1997, Maryland was held captive by a single cell microbe called P esteria
piscicida, which was reportedly implicated in killing more than 30,000 1 sh and making ill …