[HTML][HTML] Harmful algal blooms: a prolific issue in urban stormwater ponds

AE Grogan, C Alves-de-Souza, LB Cahoon, MA Mallin - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Nutrient-driven cyanobacteria blooms are an increasingly common issue in freshwater
environments, particularly in anthropogenically altered landscapes. As stormwater runoff is …

Rise and fall of toxic benthic freshwater cyanobacteria (Anabaena spp.) in the Eel river: Buoyancy and dispersal

K Bouma-Gregson, ME Power, M Bormans - Harmful Algae, 2017 - Elsevier
Benthic cyanobacteria in rivers produce cyanotoxins and affect aquatic food webs, but
knowledge of their ecology lags behind planktonic cyanobacteria. The buoyancy of benthic …

Genome Streamlining, Plasticity, and Metabolic Versatility Distinguish Co-occurring Toxic and Nontoxic Cyanobacterial Strains of Microcoleus

HS Tee, SA Wood, K Bouma-Gregson, G Lear… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Harmful cyanobacterial bloom occurrences have increased worldwide due to climate
change and eutrophication, causing nuisance and animal deaths. Species from the benthic …

Detection of anatoxin-producing Phormidium in a New Zealand farm pond and an associated dog death

SA Wood, J Puddick, R Fleming… - New Zealand Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last decade, proliferations of benthic mat-forming Phormidium have been reported
with increasing frequency in New Zealand's cobble-bed rivers. The dominant species within …

Iningainema pulvinus gen nov., sp nov.(Cyanobacteria, Scytonemataceae) a new nodularin producer from Edgbaston Reserve, north-eastern Australia

GB McGregor, BC Sendall - Harmful Algae, 2017 - Elsevier
A new nodularin producing benthic cyanobacterium Iningainema pulvinus gen nov., sp nov.
was isolated from a freshwater ambient spring wetland in tropical, north-eastern Australia …

High-throughput DNA sequencing reveals the dominance of pico-and other filamentous cyanobacteria in an urban freshwater Lake

H Li, A Alsanea, M Barber, R Goel - Science of the total environment, 2019 - Elsevier
The current study presents findings related to algal blooms in a fresh water lake, which has
been experiencing severe cyanobacterial blooms (CyanoHABs). Primarily …

Harmful macroalgal blooms in a changing world: causes, impacts, and management

BE Lapointe, JAM Burkholder… - Harmful algal blooms …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Macroalgae are a natural, common feature of inland waters as well as estuaries, coastal
waters, and oceanic waters particularly the Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean, and …

[HTML][HTML] A whole-ecosystem experiment reveals flow-induced shifts in a stream community

D Rosero-López, M Todd Walter, AS Flecker… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The growing threat of abrupt and irreversible changes to the functioning of freshwater
ecosystems compels robust measures of tipping point thresholds. To determine benthic …

Proliferation and anatoxin production of benthic cyanobacteria associated with canine mortalities along a stream-lake continuum

LH Johnston, Y Huang, TD Bermarija, C Rafuse… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Proliferations of benthic cyanobacteria are increasingly in the public eye, with rising animal
deaths associated with benthic rather than planktonic blooms. In early June 2021, two dogs …

Microcoleus (Cyanobacteria) form watershed‐wide populations without strong gradients in population structure

K Bouma‐Gregson, A Crits‐Christoph… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The relative importance of separation by distance and by environment to population genetic
diversity can be conveniently tested in river networks, where these two drivers are often …