Preface
Reviewers
HEAD, M. J. & HARLAND, R. A history of the international conferences on modern and fossil dinoflagellates, 1978–2011
POTVIN, E. The 9th International Conference on Modern and Fossil Dinoflagellates (Dino 9): a student perspective
RIDING, J. B. Dino 9: Lifetime achievement award 2011
Section I - Environmental Change
DE SCHEPPER, S. Combining dinoflagellate cyst studies with geochemical proxies: application to palaeoceanography, palaeoecology and biostratigraphy
HARLAND, R., NORDBERG, K. & ARDO, R. Latest Holocene dinoflagellate cyst records from the west coast of Sweden and their impact on the interpretation of environmental change
BONNET, S., DE VERNAL, A. & HENRY, M. Dinoflagellate cyst assemblage distributions as tracers of Pacific v. Atlantic water masses in the Northern Hemisphere
DE VERNAL, A., ROCHON, A., RADI, T. & HENRY, M. Dinocysts as proxies of sea-ice cover in Arctic and subarctic environments
Abstracts of the Environmental Change Session
ROCHON, A., HARLAND, R. & DE VERNAL, A. Dinoflagellates and their cysts: key foci for future research
Section II - Ecology Palaeoecology
MASURE, E. M., AUMAR, A.-M. & VRIELYNCK, B. Worlwide palaeogeography of Aptian and Late Albian dinoflagellate cysts: Implications for sea-surface temperature gradients and palaeoclimate
BRADLEY, L. R. & MARRET, F. Studying Holocene environmental change in the Marmara Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea and Aral Sea using dinoflagellate cysts
MCCARTHY, F. M. G. & KRUEGER, A. M. Freshwater dinoflagellates in palaeolimnological studies: Peridinium cysts as proxies of cultural eutrophication in the SE Great Lakes region of Ontario, Canada
ANDERSON, D. M., KEAFER, B. A., MCGILLICUDDY, D. J. Jr, SOLOW, A. R. & KLEINDINST, J. L. Improving the accuracy and utility of harmful algal bloom forecasting systems
ELLEGAARD, M., RIBEIRO, S., LUNDHOLM, N., ANDERSEN, T. J., BERGE, T., EKELUND, F., HÄRNSTRÖM, K. & GODHE, A. Using the sediment archive of living dinoflagellate cysts and other protist resting stages to study temporal population dynamics
LICEA, S., ZAMUDIO, M. E., CORTÉS-ALTAMIRANO, R., LUNA, R. & SOTO, P. J. Distribution of known or presumed toxic dinoflagellates in the southern Gulf of Mexico, 1979–2008
Abstracts of the Ecology Palaeoecology Session
MARRET, F. & GARCÉS, E. Future research foci for the ecology and palaeoecology of dinoflagellates and their cysts
Section III - Life Cycles & Diversity
KREMP, A. Diversity of dinoflagellate life cycles: facets and implications of complex strategies
HOPPENRATH, M., CHOMÉRAT, N. & LEANDER, B. Molecular phylogeny of Sinophysis: Evaluating the possible early evolutionary history of dinophysoid dinoflagellates
TAYLOR, J. D., BERZANO, M., LEWIS, J., PERCY, L. & MEDLIN, L. K. Preliminary results of the MIDTAL project: a microarray chip to monitor toxic microalgae in the Orkney Islands, UK
AMORIM, A., VELOSO, V., RODRíGUEZ, F. & FRAGA, S. Life cycle, morphology and phylogeny of species of Fragilidium Balech from west Iberia
ZAMUDIO, M. E., LICEA, S. & LUNA, R. Relative abundance and distribution of unarmoured dinoflagellate species in the Southern Gulf of Mexico (2005–2010)
Abstracts of Life Cycles & Diversity Session
ELLEGAARD, M., FIGUEROA, R. & VERSTEEGH, G. J. M. Dinoflagellate life cycles, strategy and diversity: key foci for future research
Section IV - Stratigraphy & Evolution
MEDLIN, L. K. & FENSOME, R. A. Dinoflagellate macroevolution: some considerations based on an integration of molecular, morphological and fossil evidence
MATSUOKA, K. & KAWAMI, H. Phylogenetic subdivision of the genus Protoperidinium (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae) with emphasis on the Monovela Group
ARAI, M. & VIVIERS, M. C. Dinoflagellate cyst superdominance assemblages from the Upper Cretaceous of the Santos Basin, offshore SE Brazil, and their palaeoecological significance
MEDLIN, L. K. Dinoflagellate microevolution, from species to populations
SCHRECK, M. & MATTHIESSEN, J. Batiacasphaera micropapillata: Palaeobiogeographic distribution and palaeoecological implications of a critical Neogene species complex
Abstracts from the Stratigraphy & Evolution Session
MATSUOKA, K. & HEAD, M. J. Clarifying cyst-motile stage relationships in dinoflagellates
Section V - Workshops
BOLCH, C. & PERCY, L. DINO 9 Workshop Report: Linking dinoflagellate life-cycle stages using single-cell isolation and molecular typing
DE VERNAL, A., RADI, T. & MARRET, F. Dinocyst assemblages as proxies in Late Cenozoic palaeoceanography: towards quantitative reconstructions using transfer functions (workshop)