R. Wayne Litaker

TL;DR: In this article , the authors compared the advantages of the macrophyte and artificial substrate methods and discussed which method is more appropriate for use in monitoring programs that focus on toxic benthic dinoflagellates species identification and quantification.

TL;DR: Molecular and morphological data suggest that evolution of this mode of fish ectoparasitism occurred independently in 2 distantly related groups of dinoflagellates, and they further suggest that the taxonomic status of parasites grouped as members of Piscinoodinium requires major revision.

TL;DR: In this paper , three different K. brevis strains varying in the amount of brevetoxin produced were tested and the authors found that larval survivorship was inversely proportional to the amount produced by each strain, which indicated that the bloom could contribute to natural mortality of fish larvae and further reduce inter-annual recruitment of fishery species whose stocks in the Gulf of Mexico may already be depleted.

TL;DR: Sampling harmful benthic dinoflagellates: Comparison of artificial and natural substrate methods • Harmful Algae, Volume 39, October 2014, Pages 8-25 •

TL;DR: In this article , an existing algorithm for estimating cyanobacterial biomass previously developed for MERIS is validated for Green Bay using cyanobacteria biovolume estimates obtained from field samples.