“…Blooms transported inshore by prevailing winds and currents (Stumpf et al, 2008;Walsh et al, 2006) encounter increased variability in temperature, salinity, pH, light, and turbulence, leading to either adaptation and persistence (maintenance phase) or bloom demise (termination phase) (Van Dolah et al, 2009). K. brevis possesses a number of distinguishing physiological attributes that may allow this species to outcompete other phytoplankton, including the ability to efficiently take up nutrients from oligotrophic waters (Vargo, 2009;Vargo et al, 2008), the use of both organic and inorganic forms of nitrogen and phosphorous (Baden and Mende, 1979;Mulholland et al, 2006;Sinclair et al, 2009), and vertical migration to assist in nutrient acquisition (Schaeffer et al, 2007;Schaeffer et al, 2009). Other adaptive characteristics include photoadaptive abilities to prevent UV damage (Evens et al, 2001) and the production of allelopathic substances which work to reduce the growth rate of competing phytoplankton species (Prince et al, 2008).…”