Domoic acid (DA), produced by marine diatom species in the genus Pseudo-nitzschia, is a
potent excitotoxin linked since the late 1990s to massive marine mammal and seabird …

Cultural eutrophication is frequently invoked as one factor in the global increase in harmful
algal blooms, but is difficult to definitively prove due to the myriad of factors influencing …

Benthic food webs often derive a significant fraction of their nutrient inputs from
phytoplankton in the overlying waters. If the phytoplankton include harmful algal species like …

Protist abundance and taxonomic composition were determined in four development stages
of newly formed sea ice (new ice, nilas, young ice and thin first-year ice) and in the …

Over the past decade diatom blooms of domoic acid (DA)-producing Pseudo-nitzschia spp.
have been responsible for numerous marine mammal and bird mortalities in Monterey Bay …

Despite the increasing occurrence of harmful phytoplankton blooms along the North
American west coast, records of phytoplankton populations and related environmental …

Domoic acid (DA) was rst recognized as the causative toxin of the amnesic shell sh
poisoning (ASP) accident that occurred in Canada in 1987.1 Before this accident, DA had …

Domoic acid is a naturally occurring excitatory amino acid that was identi. ed as the toxin
responsible for an outbreak of amnesic shell. sh poisoning that occurred in Canada in 1987 …

Amnesic shellfish poisoning toxin domoic acid (DA) is a marine neurotoxin that accumulates
in fish and shellfish, and has been implicated to be involved in human and marine wildlife …

The occurrence of coastal harmful algal blooms (HABs) over the last several decades has
become a worldwide environmental concern. Some of these HABs are caused by …