Dinoflagellate cyst production over an annual cycle in seasonally ice-covered Hudson Bay

We present continuous bi-weekly to bi-monthly dinoflagellate cyst, tintinnid loricae and tintinnid cyst fluxes at two mooring sites in Hudson Bay (subarctic Canada) from October 2005 to September 2006. The total dinoflagellate cyst fluxes at the site on the western side of the bay ranged from 4600 to 53,600 cysts m− 2 day− 1 (average 20,000 cysts m− 2 day− 1), while on average three times higher fluxes (average 62,300 cysts m− 2 day− 1) were...