Sentences with phrase «algal toxins in»

Prevalence of algal toxins in Alaskan marine mammals foraging in a changing arctic and subarctic environment.

When filter feeders are present during toxic algal blooms, they can concentrate algal toxins in their tissues.

Autopsies found algal toxins in the manatees» stomachs, lungs, kidneys, and livers.

Her team demonstrated the potentially deadly role of an algal toxin in sea lions, shed light on marine mammal cancers and infectious diseases, and has convinced many that marine mammal health is a good indicator of the health of our oceans.

Not exact matches

Researchers monitoring San Francisco Bay for algal toxins have found a surprising array of different toxins in the water and in mussels collected from the bay.

Through monitoring and evaluating activities, scientists track algal blooms, rainfall shifts, frog survival, air quality, possible toxins in decomposing trash — anything affecting or resulting from an environmental factor.

These outbursts of algal exuberance sometimes have a dark side: Algal toxins have been blamed for everything from fish kills in North Carolina to a manatee massacre in Florida to the 1987 deaths of four Canadians who consumed tainted musalgal exuberance sometimes have a dark side: Algal toxins have been blamed for everything from fish kills in North Carolina to a manatee massacre in Florida to the 1987 deaths of four Canadians who consumed tainted musAlgal toxins have been blamed for everything from fish kills in North Carolina to a manatee massacre in Florida to the 1987 deaths of four Canadians who consumed tainted mussels.

Biologists have long known that toxins produced by algal blooms — exploding populations of minute, marine algae — can accumulate in shellfish that graze on them.

Scientists are in agreement that there are more harmful algal species, more toxins, more fisheries resources impacted, more areas affected and higher economic losses than ever before.

«It has long been thought that the algal blooms found in Lake Okeechobee, which are caused by pollution such as runoffs from farms, were solely responsible for driving the blooms and their toxins in the St. Lucie Estuary,» said Brian E. Lapointe, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a research professor at FAU Harbor Branch, who recently presented these findings at the ninth U.S. National Harmful Algal Bloom Conferalgal blooms found in Lake Okeechobee, which are caused by pollution such as runoffs from farms, were solely responsible for driving the blooms and their toxins in the St. Lucie Estuary,» said Brian E. Lapointe, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a research professor at FAU Harbor Branch, who recently presented these findings at the ninth U.S. National Harmful Algal Bloom ConferAlgal Bloom Conference.

Algal blooms deplete oxygen in lakes, produce toxins, and end up killing aquatic life in the lake.

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Roughly two thousand cases of human poisoning are recorded globally each year from eating fish and shell - fish contaminated with algal toxins, resulting in about three hundred deaths per year.

Harmful algal blooms, which often produce a toxin and occur in both salt and fresh water, are known to kill fish, marine mammals, and birds; they can contaminate shellfish with toxins and harm human health, sometimes resulting in fatalities.