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ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF CYANOBACTERIAL HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS
Citation:
IBELINGS, B. W., K. HAVENS, G. A. CODD, J. DYBLE, J. LANDSBERG, M. COVENEY, J. W. FOURNIE, AND E. D. HILBORN. ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF CYANOBACTERIAL HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS. Interagency, International Symposium on Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms, Research Triangle Park, NC, September 06 - 10, 2005.U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 1-20, EPA/600/R-12/031, 2006.
Impact/Purpose:
Ecosystem effects work group report
Description:
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms represent one of the most serious ecological stressors in lakes, rivers, estuaries and marine environments. When there are persistent or frequent blooms with high biomass of cyanobacterial cells, colonies or filaments in the water, a wide range of impacats on the ecosystem may occur. These are well estalbished in the scientific literature and are summarized in Paerl er al. (2001).