Dinoflagellates exhibit a variety of feeding strategies, about half are autotrophic, since dinoflagellates have a slower generation time than diatoms they tend to follow diatom blooms.
Michoacan, Mexico is in the middle of Mexico between Guadalajara and Mexico City. It is Mexico's heartland, a great agricultural region as well of centers of indigenous crafts. This state has many climate and cultural variations and is known as La Alma de Mexico; The soul of Mexico.
Most of it is located in the states of Chihuahua and Coahuila in Mexico, but fingers of the Chihuahuan reach up into western Arizona, southern New Mexico, and Texas, and down to the states of Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosi in Mexico.