Red tide
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Population dynamics of red tide dinoflagellates
Sea-surface discolorations due to high concentrations of phytoplankton are called red tides. Their ecological significance is a long standing puzzle, and they are sometimes considered pathological. Here we propose that many red tides, particularly but not exclusively those comprised of certain autotrophic dinoflagellates, are presexual/sexual swarms, essential links in their complex life cycles...
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admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/254368b0