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Many coastal embayments along the Atlantic coastline have been plagued, since 1985, with large accumulations of a microalga, Aureococcus anopahagefferens. These algae blooms are known as “brown tides” because of the resulting water color and they have had a deleterious effect on the estuarine environment (Cosper et al., 1987).
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Beltrami, E.J. (1989). Brown Tide Dynamics as a Catastrophe Model. In: Cosper, E.M., Bricelj, V.M., Carpenter, E.J. (eds) Novel Phytoplankton Blooms. Coastal and Estuarine Studies, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75280-3_17
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