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Red tides: Factors regulating production of Heterocapsa triquetra and fate and environmental effects of the biomass (Marina algblomningar)

Date: 15.6.1997-13.3.1998
Code: 8672
Department: Åbo Akademi University / Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (MNF), Dept. of Biology
Address: BioCity, Artillerigatan 6, FIN-20520 Åbo
Phone +358-2-2154 525 eller 018-37221
Fax +358-2-2154 748 eller 018-37244
E-mail tlindhol@abo.fi
Project leader: FD Tore Lindholm, docent, forskare (15.6.1997-31.3.1998)
Type of research: 0 (0=Within duty, 1=Ordered research, 2=Co-operation)
- basic research 100 %
ÅA internal financing: FIM 57500
Man months: Totally: 10 months
Keywords: alger, biomassa, levät, biomassa, Red tide, Heterocapsa triquestra, växtplankton, Prymnesium, Red tide, Heterocapsa triquetra, phytoplankton, Prymnesium,

Red tides.Factors regulating growth of Heterocapsa triquetra and fate of the biomass.The dioflagellate Heterocapsa triquetra (Dinophyceae) is abundant in the phytoplankton of the Baltic Sea and it sometimes forms red tides in polluted coastal waters.Recurrent red tides have been studied in Mariehamn Västerhamn - Svibyviken area in Åland (SW Finland).During the unusually warm summer 1997 the species was abundant in June but it disappeared in mid-July.A paper on Heterocapsa was presented at the BMB 15 and ECSA 27 Symposium in Mariehamn 9-13 June 1997 (in press 1998) and a poster was presented at the VIII International Conference on Harmful Algae in Vigo, Spain 25-29 June 1997.Two students, Johanna Liljekvist and Pia Nyman participated in the investigations in 1997.Johanna Liljekvist studied the fate of the Heterocapsa biomass.A toxic bloom of Prymnesium sp.(Haptophyta) caused extensive fish mortality in the almost enclosed brackish-water inlet Vargsundet (salinity 2.2 PSU) in Åland in July 1997.Vargsundet was investigated regularly in July and August.The toxicity of water persisted until late August.A manuscript on the studies in Vargsundet has been submitted.

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15.2.1996 / 12.3.1998