The dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans is one of the most important and abundant red tide
organisms and it is distributed world-wide. It occurs in two forms. Red Noctiluca is …

Our limited intuition of the small‐scale world of the plankton has biased the way we describe
and understand ocean ecology. Classical approaches consider fluxes of energy and matter …

Bioluminescence is a striking phenomenon that is ubiquitous throughout the world's oceans.
Here we bring together the findings of in situ observations of bioluminescence in the upper …

Three types of feeding mechanisms are known in dinoflagellates: pallium feeding, tube
feeding, and direct engulfment. Pallium feeding has only been described for heterotrophic …

The first 'bloom'of Noctiluca scintillans in the Northern Adriatic Sea was recorded in 1977.
The organism caused several red tides in the whole basin during the late 1970s, a period …

The kinetics of nitrogen (nitrate, ammonium, urea) and carbon uptake by a red tide bloom
consisting almost exclusively of the dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedrum (Stein) Dodge …

The heterotrophic dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans has a negligible swimming ability and
feeds predominantly on immobile prey. How, then, does it encounter prey? Noctiluca …

The Laguna Madre of south Texas, USA, has experienced a dense, nearly monospecific
phytoplankton bloom since January 1990 referred to as the'brown tide'. Zooplankton …

Prey selectivity, growth and feeding responses were studied in the cillate Balanion coma-
turn (17 pm) and the heterotroph~ c dinoflagellate Gjmnodinium sp.(7 pm). Almost identical …

The surfaces of most pelagic diatoms are sticky at times and may therefore form rapidly
settling aggregates by physical coagulation. Stickiness and aggregate formation may be …