In most marine and fresh-water environments, microscopic, plant-like organisms occur naturally in the surface layer, referred to as phytoplankton or microalgae. They form the base of the food chain upon which nearly all ...

Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB), are natural phenomena that are produced by the proliferation of phytoplankton potentially harmful to humans and for some ecosystem services (e.g., good water quality for use in aquaculture, ...

Historical documents and classic works together with recent specialized literature have described Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in the Gulf of California. This is a review of HABs impact (qualitative and quantitative) during ...

We present experiments that examined the grazing and survivorship of zooplankton native (Acartia tonsa) and non-native (Artemia salina) to NY (USA) estuaries when exposed to blooms and cultures of the three harmful algae ...

Bivalves survive to biotoxin consumption but their metabolism could be affected. The objective of this work was to study the oxidative and nitrosative changes in the hemocytes of the mussel Mytilus edulis platensis in ...

The acute poisoning of chronic renal patients during hemodialysis sessions in 1996 in Caruaru City (Pernambuco State, Brazil) stimulated an intensive search for the cause of this severe complication. This search culminated ...