Wind-driven development and transport of Gymnodinium catenatum blooms along the coast of Fujian, China

• Main Authors: Zhang, Caiyun, Lim, Po Teen, Li, Xueding, Gu, Haifeng, Li, Xing, Anderson, Donald M.
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: QH Natural history
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/25703/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2020.101397

Gymnodinium catenatum is a cosmopolitan, bloom-forming dinoflagellate known to produce a suite of potent paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins. Here, we revisit two major blooms of G. catenatum along the Fujianese Coast, China, in 2017 and 2018. The impact area of the 2017 bloom was larger than...