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12th International Conference on Harmful Algae

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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF HARMFUL ALGAE12 th <str<strong>on</strong>g>Internati<strong>on</strong>al</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>C<strong>on</strong>ference</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> <strong>Harmful</strong> <strong>Algae</strong>, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-8 September 2006Therefore, data from the YSIsystem could well support thestudies <strong>on</strong> the dynamics andmechanism of large scale red tidesin this regi<strong>on</strong>.PO.12-05Do you know this dinoflagellate?Sessi<strong>on</strong>: PO.12 - Tax<strong>on</strong>omy and phylogenyJL Wolny 1 , MJ Garrett 2 , KA Steidinger 11 Florida Institute of Oceanography, SAINTPETERSBURG, FLORIDA, United Statesof America2 Fish and Wildlife Research Institute,SAINT PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, UnitedStates of AmericaDuring routine ballast waterm<strong>on</strong>itoring for harmful algae wediscovered an unusualdinoflagellate. The cyst wasobtained by sediment sampling aballast tank of the cargo c<strong>on</strong>tainership ‘Southern Fighter’, docked atthe Port of Tampa. In culture, thisdinoflagellate spends the majority ofits life cycle in a n<strong>on</strong>-motile stage.The n<strong>on</strong>-motile stage is twice thesize of the vegetative cell. It issmooth walled, with the excepti<strong>on</strong> ofthe apical pore area, and gathers inlarge clusters that are visible to thenaked eye. The vegetative cell is ascrippsielloid dinoflagellate with thefollowing plate tabulati<strong>on</strong>: Po, x, 4’,3a, 7', 6c, 6s, 5’', 2''. The vegetativecell is characterized by a deeplyinvaginated and narrow 1’ plate,unique apical pore complex, anddeep sulcus. The vegetative cellshave been morphometricallycompared to Bysmatrum,Calciodinellum, Ensiculifera,Pentapharsodinium, Peridiniella,Peridinium, Protoperidinium, andScrippsiella with no definitive match,although they most resembleBysmatrum. We presume thisdinoflagellate is a benthic specieslike Bysmatrum, but it lacks theanterior intercalary plate patterntypical of that genus. The routineports of call for this ship, whereballast water exchanges took place,were Antwerp, Belgium, Terneuzen,Netherlands, and Uddevalla,Sweden.PO.10-06Interacti<strong>on</strong> effects of nutrientlimitati<strong>on</strong> and UV radiati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong>Nodularia spumigena - anoutdoor experimentSessi<strong>on</strong>: PO.10 - Ecophysiology &AutecologyA Wulff 1 , M Mohlin 2 , V Lindberg 21 Göteborg University, GÖTEBORG,Sweden2 Marine Ecology, GÖTEBORG, SwedenNodularia spumigena is <strong>on</strong>e ofseveral toxin-producingcyanobacteria in the Baltic Sea. Itproduces the hepatoxin nodularin, atumour promoter known to havekilled wild and domestic animals.Nodularia spumigena blooms occurduring late summer, a period withstr<strong>on</strong>g light, calm weather andstable water-column stratificati<strong>on</strong>.Due to its ability to fix atmosphericnitrogen, N. spumigena does notdepend <strong>on</strong> this macr<strong>on</strong>utrient in thewater. Instead it is generallybelieved that growth of N.spumigena is limited byphosphorus. In a mesocosmexperiment we will study theinteracti<strong>on</strong> effects of N and Plimitati<strong>on</strong>, and UV radiati<strong>on</strong>.Cultures of N. spumigena areexposed to, or shielded from,natural levels of UV radiati<strong>on</strong> in 5-Laquaria with and without N- and P-limiting c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s, repectively. Theexperiment will be run for ca 30days (July, 2006). Variables to beanalysed are related to growth andphotosynthetic activity as well as thec<strong>on</strong>tent of nodularin and UVabsorbingcompounds.304

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