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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 44, Issue 11, Pages 5571-5579Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL072637
Keywords
harmful algal bloom; Pseudo-nitzschia; domoic acid; silicate limitation; marine heat wave
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- NOAA ECOHAB grant [NA11NOS4780030]
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
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An ecologically and economically disruptive harmful algal bloom (HAB) affected much of the northeast Pacific margin in 2015, during a prolonged oceanic warm anomaly. Caused by diatoms of the genus Pseudo-nitzschia, this HAB produced the highest particulate concentrations of the biotoxin domoic acid (DA) ever recorded in Monterey Bay, California. Bloom inception followed strong upwelling during the spring transition, which introduced nutrients and eliminated the warm anomaly locally. Subsequently, moderate and intermittent upwelling created favorable conditions for growth and accumulation of HAB biomass, which was dominated by a highly toxigenic species, P. australis. High cellular DA concentrations were associated with available nitrogen for DA synthesis coincident with silicate exhaustion. This nutrient influence resulted from two factors: (1) disproportionate depletion of silicate in upwelling source waters during the warm anomaly, the most severe depletion observed in 24years, and (2) silicate uptake by the dense diatom bloom.
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