Explore: Cyanobacterial Blooms

cyanobacterium blooms in water bodies throughout the world. In the Baltic Sea, marine blooms of Nodularia spumigena are among some of the largest cyanobacterial mass

other hand, toxic cyanobacterial blooms are an increasing issue for society, as their toxins can be harmful to animals. Extreme blooms can also deplete

blue-green algal blooms and trying to find ways to predict when they are spreading or where they might make landfall; typically, the blooms arrive late each

definition, harmful algal blooms are only those blooms that release toxins that affect other species. On the other hand, any algal bloom can cause dead zones

agricultural, city, and sewage runoff can cause algal blooms. Algal blooms, especially large algal bloom events, can reduce the transparency of the water and

that includes the harmful algal bloom-forming Microcystis aeruginosa. Over the last few decades, cyanobacterial blooms caused by eutrophication have become

The 1991 Darling River cyanobacterial bloom is the largest algal bloom on record, of the Barwon-Darling River in New South Wales, Australia. Parts of

since the 1990 s, yet episodic internal loading still triggers cyanobacterial blooms. A nearly continuous reed (*Phragmites australis*) belt—locally

the original on August 3, 2014. Retrieved August 3, 2014. "Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms (CyanoHABs) & Water". Mass.gov. Retrieved 9 June 2022. Bouaïcha

and eutrophication due to nutrient runoff. These expansive cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms, known as cyanoHABs, increase the amount of cyanotoxins in