The growth change of dinoflagellate Karenia brevis after the addition of altered bacterial communities exposed to crude oil and light

This data indicates the growth change of dinoflagellate Karenia brevis after the addition of altered bacterial communities exposed to crude oil and light. To investigate the effect of bacterial communities on the initiation phytoplankton bloom in oil-polluted environments, (i) we exposed bacterial communities to crude oil (200 ppm) and light, (ii) inoculated these altered bacterial communities into dinoflagellate K. brevis, (iii) and then measured the growth change of K. brevis and bacterial density. This experiment was conducted in the laboratory and data was collected from October, 2016 to February, 2017.