Lake Okeechobee is the largest lake in Florida and the second largest in the Southeastern United States. Over the past two decades, blooms of blue-green algae (Microcystis) have emerged in the ...

"Microcystis literally means small cell, but numerous cells cluster together in colonies that can float to the surface to form scums," said Orlando Sarnelle, a professor emeritus with the ...

Knowing this, they hope to better understand, detect and predict when a bloom might occur, or even trace the algae to a source.

In these phosphorus-rich tropical lakes, the shallowest study sites were most conducive to the development of large standing crops of Microcystis and high MC concentrations. The environmental ...

Warm, nutrient-rich water conditions favor large blooms of Microcystis, which can form thick green mats on the surface of the water. “This study is significant because it is the first to establish a ...

We asked if intraspecific variation within a population of the toxic, bloom-forming phytoplankter, Microcystis aeruginosa, leads to differential vulnerability to grazing by the invasive, ...

By sequencing DNA from a bloom near Barker’s Island in Superior last fall, researchers linked the toxins to Microcystis aeruginosa. The Minnesota Sea Grant called it a “breakthrough discovery.” ...

image: Summer Microcystis bloom in Castle Rock Pond, Norman, Oklahoma. view more Credit: Haiyuan Cai. Harmful algal blooms create challenges around the globe for water quality and health risk ...

And microcystis is something they don't like," Dr. Hank Vanderploeg said. He is Branch Chief at NOAA's Great Lake Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor. That's right: ...

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