2018 journal article
Imbalanced nutrient regimes increase Prymnesium parvum resilience to herbicide exposure
Harmful Algae, 75, 57–74.
author keywords: Atrazine; Brackish; Hemolytic activity; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Prymnesium parvum
MeSH headings : Eutrophication / drug effects; Haptophyta / drug effects; Haptophyta / growth & development; Herbicide Resistance / physiology; Herbicides / metabolism; Nitrogen / metabolism; Nutrients / metabolism; Phosphorus / metabolism; Water Pollutants, Chemical / metabolism
TL;DR:
Findings suggest that increasing chemical contamination is helping to promote ecosystem-disruptive, strongly mixotrophic algal blooms.
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The toxigenic haptophyte Prymnesium parvum is a mixotrophic phytoplankter with an extensive historic record of forming nearly monospecific, high-biomass, ecosystem-disrupting blooms, and it has been responsible for major fish kills in brackish waters and aquaculture facilities in many regions of the world. Little is known about how this species responds to commonly occurring environmental contaminants, or how nutrient (nitrogen, phosphorus) pollution may interact with environmentally relevant pesticide exposures to affect this harmful algal species. Here, standard algal toxicity bioassays from pesticide hazard assessments were used along with modified erythrocyte lysis assays to evaluate how atrazine exposures, imbalanced nutrient supplies, and salinity interact to influence the growth and toxicity in P. parvum isolates from three different regions. In nutrient-replete media, P. parvum 96 h IC50s ranged from 73.0 to 88.3 μg atrazine L-1 at salinity 10 and from 118 to >200 μg atrazine μg L-1 at salinity 20, and the response depended on the strain and the test duration. Relative hemolytic activity, used as an indication of toxicity, was a function of herbicide exposure, nutrient availability, salinity, geographic origin, and interactions among these factors. Highest levels of hemolytic activity were measured from a South Carolina strain in low-nitrogen media with high atrazine concentrations. Herbicide concentration was related to relative hemolytic activity, although a consistent relationship between growth phase and toxicity was not observed. Overall, these findings suggest that increasing chemical contamination is helping to promote ecosystem-disruptive, strongly mixotrophic algal blooms.