Management and Sustainable Control of Harmful Algal Blooms
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026 | Viewed by 28
Special Issue Editors
Interests: harmful algal blooms; cyanoHABs; freshwater ecosystems; ecology; bioinformatics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to promote a multidisciplinary framework for the sustainable management and control of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in ocean and freshwater environments. HABs, largely driven by eutrophication, climate variability, and hydrological alterations, are a growing threat to water quality, biodiversity, and public health. The Special Issue will welcome contributions that span from computational and modeling-based approaches, such as early warning systems, predictive models, data-driven causal inference, and decision support tools, to in situ strategies involving nutrient manipulation, chemical additions, or biological control agents. Field and mesocosm studies exploring the effectiveness, sustainability, and ecological safety of such interventions are especially encouraged. Submissions may also address climate-related vulnerability, system resilience, and long-term control strategies under realistic environmental constraints. It is hoped that this Special Issue will serve as a reference point for researchers, water authorities, and lake managers seeking integrative, science-based solutions to mitigate the impacts of HABs and promote ecosystem stability.
Dr. Ofir Tal
Dr. Yael Amitai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cyanoHABs
- harmful algal blooms (HABs)
- modeling
- causal inference
- monitoring
- ecological restoration
- sus-tainable control
- climate change
- decision–support
- remote sensing
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