R. Wayne Litaker

TL;DR: Data substantiate the use of chlorophyll as a proxy for K. brevis cell abundance as aproxy for brevetoxins during blooms and suggest that growth rates may provide a useful indicator for determining the physiological state of the bloom over time.

TL;DR: In this article, airborne laser-induced fluorescence measurements were used to detect and monitor ecosystem wide changes in the distribution and concentration of chlorophyll biomass and colored dissolved organic matter in the Pamlico-Albemarle Sound system, North Carolina, U.S., following massive flooding caused by a series of three hurricanes in the late summer of 1999.

TL;DR: Forecasting initiatives within the developing Great Lakes Observing System may be best served by embedding neural networks in mechanistic models to quantitatively initialize variables, qualitatively delineate conditions for projecting ecological structure, and/or estimate deviations from predictability within mechanistic simulations.

TL;DR: This study fulfilled Koch's postulates and demonstrated that ulcers could be experimentally induced in striped mullet after exposure via injection to secondary zoospores of an endemic Florida strain of Aphanomyces invadans.

TL;DR: This study identified the toxic Alexandrium species present in Alaska and developed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays for use in screening phytoplankton and sediment samples and identified a suite of species-specific Alexandrium assays that can be recommended for evaluation by the global harmful algal bloom community.