Toxic effects, mechanisms, and ecological impacts of harmful algal blooms in China.

Over the last 30 years, harmful algal blooms (HABs) have occurred frequently in the coastal waters of China, resulting in financial losses of over 5.9 billion yuan (about 0.87 billion US dollars) due to massive fish and shellfish mortalities and negative impacts on tourism.

[Three-dimensional fluorescence characteristic of dissolved organic matter in marine mesocosm experiment in Jiaozhou Bay, China].

The three-dimensional fluorescence of dissolved organic matter in the mesocosm with different nutrients enrichment experiments in Jiaozhou Bay was determined by using excitation-emission matrix spectrum. The result indicates that phytoplankton can produce protein-like and humic-like fluorescent matter. The protein-like fluorescence is composed of tyrosine-like fluorescence and tryptophan-like fluorescence.