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Small scale retentive structures and Dinophysis
Xie, H.; Lazure, P.; Gentien, P. (2007). Small scale retentive structures and Dinophysis. J. Mar. Syst. 64(1-4): 173-188. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2006.03.008
In: Journal of Marine Systems. Elsevier: Tokyo; Oxford; New York; Amsterdam. ISSN 0924-7963; e-ISSN 1879-1573
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Keywords
    Dinophysis Ehrenberg, 1839 [WoRMS]
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    Dinophysis; Prediction; Rare species; Eddy; 3D hydrodynamical model; Bay of Biscay

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  • Xie, H.
  • Lazure, P.
  • Gentien, P.

Abstract
    Despite its rarity, Dinophysis acuminata is in terms of economic impact, the first toxic algal species along the coasts of Western Europe. It is observed at low levels (< 20 cell l- 1) all the year round but toxic events occur mainly in late spring and summer. D. acuminata ecophysiology is largely unknown due to the inability to culture it. Therefore, standard biomass models based on inorganic nutrition are largely inadequate. Presently, any progress in describing the conditions of population growth of this species will be a step forward to prediction of harmful events at the coast. This species has been observed at increased, albeit low cell densities in retentive eddies located in pycnocline layers. A concentration build-up of one species results from the balance between growth and loss processes, one of the latter being dispersal. The scales of interest for a D. acuminata population are of the order of 10 nautical miles on the horizontal and duration of 10 days, for a reported achievable growth rate of 0.6 day- 1. A three dimensional (3D) hydrodynamical model of the Bay of Biscay has been elaborated to reproduce hydrological structures over the last decade. We attempt here to relate the existence of retentive structures revealed from simulations under realistic forcing conditions and the toxic coastal events recorded in the 10-year time series of the French plankton monitoring network database. The eddies in the coastal area appear to be directly related with the Dinophysis coastal events and they may be a potential effective tool to predict those.

Dataset
  • REPHY: Dataset of French Observation and Monitoring program for Phytoplankton and Hydrology in coastal waters since 1987

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