Advanced Research in Harmful Algal Blooms and Eutrophication

A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biology".

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Special Issue Editors

Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen, China
Interests: harmful algal bloom; marine toxins; biodiversity; phylogeography; marine ecology; shellfish poisoning; eDNA; eutrophication; molecular systematics; microalgae
Research Center of Harmful Algae and Marine Biology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Interests: phytoplankton ecology; marine ecology; harmful algal bloom; eutrophication; transcriptomics; transcriptional regulation; CRISPR-Cas9
Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resource and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Science, Guangzhou, China
Interests: marine ecology; eutrophication; harmful algal bloom; biodiversity of toxigenic algal species; paralytic shellfish toxins; diarrhetic shellfish toxins; domoic acids; lipophilic phycotoxins; shellfish; Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS); bioaccumulation; biotransformation

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Independent Researcher, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Interests: phytoplankton; harmful algal blooms; aquatic toxicology; biotoxins; detection methods; seafood safety
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CNR-IRSA National Research Council-Water Research Institute, Unit of Taranto Via Roma, 3-74121 Taranto, Italy
Interests: biodiversity of phytoplankton in coastal and brackish environments; ecology of harmful phytoplankton species; biogeochemical cycles and eutrophication: aquaculture and laboratory cultures
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Department of Marine Biotechnology, Kunsan National University, Gunsan, Republic of Korea
Interests: marine phytoplankton ecology; marine phytoplankton biotechnology; harmful algal bloom ecology; climate change; conservation biology; biodiversity

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The effects of harmful algal blooms (HABs) have been detrimental to natural resources, seafood industries, disturbed ecosystems, and threatened public health for decades. In addition to involving a wide variety of organisms, bloom dynamics, and mechanisms of impact, HABs remain as an important topic for aquatic researchers due to current challenges and emergent issues. This special issue aims to collect advanced research works that address current HABs problematics and that may involve harmful microalgae, macroalgae, and cyanobacteria blooms, along with eutrophication, phycotoxins, and hypoxia. Information integrated from various disciplines coupled with improved, sustained monitoring systems to help manage and predict problems associated with HABs over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales are welcome.

Dr. Zhaohe Luo
Dr. Lei Cui
Dr. Yang Liu
Dr. Juan José Dorantes-Aranda
Dr. Carmela Caroppo
Dr. Wonho Yih
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Keywords

  • harmful algal blooms
  • phycotoxins
  • cyanobacterial blooms
  • eDNA surveys HABs
  • eutrophication
  • hypoxia
  • observation and modeling of HABs
  • Machine-Learning Models to predict HABs

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Towards the Early Detection of Gymnodinium catenatum Algal Blooms in the Northern Gulf of California
by Gabriela Reséndiz-Colorado, Ernesto García-Mendoza, Antonio Almazán-Becerril, Jennifer Medina-Elizalde, Jushiro A. Cepeda-Morales and Juan P. Rivera-Caicedo
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2023, 11(9), 1793; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11091793 - 14 Sep 2023
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The annual occurrence of harmful algal blooms (HABs) of the dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum in the northern Gulf of California (NGC) during winter and spring has negative ecological, economic, and social impacts on the local coastal population. G. catenatum produces paralytic shellfish toxins, and [...] Read more.
The annual occurrence of harmful algal blooms (HABs) of the dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum in the northern Gulf of California (NGC) during winter and spring has negative ecological, economic, and social impacts on the local coastal population. G. catenatum produces paralytic shellfish toxins, and a robust monitoring program of the species is necessary to sustain mitigation actions against their detrimental effects. Here, we applied the maximum-likelihood classification (MLC) method to classify satellite images from MODIS and Sentinel-3 to evaluate their effectiveness to detect G. catenatum. Different classes associated with the presence of the species were developed from data of two HABs that occurred in 2015 and 2017. Two classes derived from Sentinel-3 data from the 2017 HAB allowed the detection of this species. These Sentinel-3 classes adequately represented the temporal and geographical distribution of G. catenatum in the region and the no-bloom condition during the summer. The concordance between the detection of the Sentinel-3 classes on the west coast of the NGC and the recorded presence of G. catenatum (75% of concordance) in the area indicates that the MLC method could be applied for early detection of the species in the NGC, using Sentinel-3 full resolution images. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Harmful Algal Blooms and Eutrophication)
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