Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are a group of emerging micro-
pollutants causing detrimental effects on living organisms even at low doses. Previous …

Water is the most valuable resource on the planet. However, massive anthropogenic
activities generate threatening levels of biological, organic, and inorganic pollutants that are …

The development of anthropogenic activities has led to an excessive disposal of wastes into
water bodies, thus reducing water quality and damaging aquatic ecosystems. To avoid the …

The dinoflagellate genus Alexandrium is one of the major harmful algal bloom (HAB) genera
with respect to the diversity, magnitude and consequences of blooms. The ability of …

Prediction of the impact of global climate change on marine HABs is fraught with difficulties.
However, we can learn important lessons from the fossil record of dinoflagellate cysts; long …

Rapid progress in the field of ionic liquids in recent decades led to the development of many
outstanding energy‐conversion processes, catalytic systems, synthetic procedures, and …

The public health, tourism, fisheries, and ecosystem impacts from harmful algal blooms
(HABs) have all increased over the past few decades. This has led to heightened scientific …

Marine neurotoxins are natural products produced by phytoplankton and select species of
invertebrates and fish. These compounds interact with voltage-gated sodium, potassium and …

In his seminal 1961 paper 'The paradox of the plankton'Am Nat 95: 137-147, GE Hutchinson
asked why many species of phytoplankton can coexist while competing for a small number …

In the open sea, primary production is almost totally based on photosynthesis by pelagic
unicellular or colonial microalgae, collectively known as phytoplankton. Benthic algae are …