Advances in Detecting, Monitoring, Predicting, Managing and Controlling Harmful Algal Blooms

Dear Colleagues,

Harmful freshwater algal blooms have become a major environmental and public health issue worldwide. Freshwater cyanobacterial blooms can produce toxic substances (also known as cyanotoxins) that seriously threaten the lives of humans and animals. With global climate warming and anthropogenic eutrophication increasing, the intensity, duration, and magnitude of harmful algal blooms present an escalating trend in the water bodies around the world. So far, substantial efforts have been made to understand the nature, causes, and health impacts of cyanotoxin and harmful algal blooms. These efforts constitute the growing endeavor to guide the development of technologies to detect cyanotoxins and harmful cyanobacteria, and to monitor, forecast, control, and manage harmful algal blooms.

To highlight recent advances in studying freshwater algal blooms, this Special Issue covers a broad spectrum of cyanobacterial bloom research topics, from the nature and ecology of cyanotoxin and algal bloom, analytical technologies, causes, and health impacts, to monitoring, forecasting, managing, and controlling algal blooms, organized as follows:

1. Analytical technologies (immunoassay, chromatography-based methods, etc.) for cyanotoxins (e.g., microcystin, anatoxin-a) and toxigenic cyanobacteria (e.g., microcystin-producing cyanobacteria);
2. Ecology of cyanotoxins and cyanobacteria;
3. Causes of cyanobacterial blooms;
4. Health effects of cyanobacterial blooms;
5. Monitoring cyanobacterial blooms using satellite remote monitoring technologies;
6. Forecasting cyanobacterial blooms with various models (including artificial intelligence technology);
7. Managing and controlling cyanotoxins and harmful algal blooms using various chemical, physical, and biological measures.

Dr. Chenlin Hu
Guest Editor

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