Winter distributions of Dinophysis populations: do they help to predict the onset of the bloom?

• Main Authors: Reguera, Beatriz, Díaz, Patricio Andrés, Escalera-Moura, Laura, Cabanas-López, José Manuel, Ruiz-Villarreal, Manuel
• Other Authors: MacKenzie, L. (Lincoln)
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae 2015
• Subjects: Dinophysis distribution; Medio Marino; Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo; overwintering cells; Dinophysis acuminata; Dinophysis acuta; Morena; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/9617; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/323446

Blooms of diarrhetic shellfish toxin (DST) producers of the genus Dinophysis (D. acuminata, D. acuta) pose the main threat to the sustainable exploitation of cultivated mussels and other bivalves on the Atlantic coasts of Europe. Dinophysis species do not rely on cysts as a seeding strategy. Detecti...