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Blooms of Prorocentrum Micans (Dinophyta) in the Galway Bay area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

C. Pybus
C. Pybus
Affiliation:
Department of Life Sciences, Regional Technical College, Galway, Ireland
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Dense populations of Prorocentrum micans are reported from the Galway Bay area in 1980 and 1981. At one location a density of llx106 cells dm-3 was found co-incident with a bright red colour in the water. High concentrations of chlorophyll a and high levels of dissolved oxygen were also associated with the blooms.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 70 , Issue 4 , November 1990 , pp. 697 - 705
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1990

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