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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 1999, p. 5594-5596, Vol. 65, No. 12
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Cooccurrence of Elevated Urea Levels and Dinoflagellate Blooms in Temperate Estuarine Aquaculture Pondsdagger

Patricia M. Glibert1,* and Daniel E. Terlizzi2

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, Maryland 21613,1 and University of Maryland Sea Grant Extension Program and College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, College Park, Maryland 207422

Received 6 July 1999/Accepted 13 September 1999

In hybrid striped bass aquaculture ponds, dinoflagellate blooms were found on 10 of 14 occasions to co-occur with concentrations of urea in excess of 1.5 µM nitrogen. When urea levels were <1.5 µM nitrogen, on seven occasions, no evidence of dinoflagellate blooms was observed in these ponds.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD 21613. Phone: (410) 221-8422. Fax: (410) 221-8490. E-mail: glibert{at}hpl.umces.edu.

dagger This is contribution number 3240 from the Center for Environmental Science.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 1999, p. 5594-5596, Vol. 65, No. 12
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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