ReviewEnvironmental health perspectives2001
Field ecology of toxic Pfiesteria complex species and a conservative analysis of their role in estuarine fish kills.
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- The Eukaryotic Life on Microplastics in Brackish Ecosystems.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
- Novel contaminants identified in fish kills in the Red River watershed, 2011-2013.Environmental toxicology and chemistry · 2018Article
- Harmful algal blooms and eutrophication: Examining linkages from selected coastal regions of the United States.Harmful algae · 2008Article
- Pfiesteria in estuarine waters: the question of health risks.Environmental health perspectives · 2007Article
- Occupational exposure to pfiesteria species in estuarine waters is not a risk factor for illness.Environmental health perspectives · 2006Article
- Demonstration of toxicity to fish and to mammalian cells by Pfiesteria species: comparison of assay methods and strains.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2005Article
- Characterization of ichthyocidal activity of Pfiesteria piscicida: dependence on the dinospore cell density.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2005Article
- Comparative impacts of two major hurricane seasons on the Neuse River and western Pamlico Sound ecosystems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2004Article
- Are Pfiesteria species toxicogenic? Evidence against production of ichthyotoxins by Pfiesteria shumwayae.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2002Article
- Discovery of the toxic dinoflagellate Pfiesteria in northern European waters.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2002Article
- Emerging areas of research reported during the CDC National Conference on Pfiesteria: from biology to public health.Environmental health perspectives · 2001Article
- The standardized fish bioassay procedure for detecting and culturing actively toxic Pfiesteria, used by two reference laboratories for atlantic and gulf coast states.Environmental health perspectives · 2001Review
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Abstract
Within the past decade, toxic Pfiesteria outbreaks have been documented in poorly flushed, eutrophic areas of the largest and second largest estuaries on the U.S. mainland. Here we summarize a decadal field effort in fish kill assessment, encompassing kills related to Pfiesteria (49 major kills in North Carolina estuaries since 1991 and 4 in Maryland estuaries in 1997) and to other factors such as low oxygen stress (79 major fish kills in North Carolina estuaries). The laboratory and field data considered in developing our protocols are described, including toxic Pfiesteria behavior, environmental conditions conducive to toxic Pfiesteria activity, and impacts of toxic clonal Pfiesteria on fish health. We outline the steps of the standardized fish bioassay procedure that has been used since 1991 to diagnose whether actively toxic Pfiesteria was present during estuarine fish kills. Detailed data are given for a 1998 toxic Pfiesteria outbreak in the Neuse Estuary in North Carolina to illustrate of the full suite of diagnostic steps completed. We demonstrate that our conservative approach in implicating toxic Pfiesteria involvement in fish kills has biased in favor of causes other than Pfiesteria. Data are summarized from experiments that have shown stimulation of toxic Pfiesteria strains by nutrient (N, P) enrichment, supporting field observations of highest abundance of toxic strains in eutrophic estuaries. On the basis of a decade of research on toxic Pfiesteria, we present a conceptual model of the seasonal dynamics of toxic strains as affected by changing food resources and weather patterns. We also recommend protocols and research approaches that will strengthen the science of fish kill assessment related to Pfiesteria and/or other causative factors.
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