Reply to Dees et al.: Ocean warming promotes species-specific increases in the cellular growth rates of harmful algal blooms

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Recently, we (1) reported that, since 1982, several regions across the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans have experienced warming in specific seasons and locations that have significantly increased the potential cellular growth rates and bloom seasons of two harmful algae, Alexandrium fundyense and Dinophysis acuminata , and that new blooms caused by these species have emerged in these same regions. In their comment “Harmful algal blooms in the Eastern North Atlantic Ocean,” Dees et al. (2) examine the Continuous Plankton Recorder data from the North Eastern Atlantic and North Sea from 1982 to 2015 and find no relationship between Dinophysis spp. abundance and sea-surface temperature. This observation is consistent … [↵][1]1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: christopher.gobler{at}stonybrook.edu. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1