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  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,680 Views
15 Pages

Winter Bloom of Marine Cyanobacterium, Trichodesmium erythraeum and Its Relation to Environmental Factors

  • Nowrin Akter Shaika,
  • Eman Alhomaidi,
  • Md. Milon Sarker,
  • Abdullah An Nur,
  • Md. Ashfaq Sadat,
  • Sadiqul Awal,
  • Golam Mostafa,
  • Shanur Jahedul Hasan,
  • Yahia Mahmud and
  • Saleha Khan

10 January 2023

A winter bloom event of Trichodesmium erythraeum was monitored for the first time in the southeastern coastal parts of Bangladesh along the Bay of Bengal. This study presents the brownish to light pinkish bloom that appeared in mid-winter and disappe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,083 Views
21 Pages

1 April 2020

We evaluated changes in the phytoplankton community in Korean coastal waters during October 2016 and February 2017. Typhoon Chaba introduced a large amount of freshwater into the coastal areas during autumn 2016, and there was a significant negative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,027 Views
28 Pages

4 November 2019

Algal blooms in eutrophic lakes have been a global issue to environmental ecology. Although great progress on prevention and control of algae have been made in many lakes, systematic research on long-term temporal-spatial dynamics and drivers of alga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,539 Views
14 Pages

3 March 2023

Rapid and accurate monitoring of algal blooms using remote sensing techniques is an effective means for the prevention and control of algal blooms. Traditional methods often have difficulty achieving the balance between interpretative accuracy and ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,792 Views
17 Pages

5 December 2024

The long-term characteristics of phytoplankton blooms and the relative importance of driving factors in the Yangtze River Estuary (YRE) and its adjacent waters remains unclear. This study explored the temporal and spatial patterns of blooms and their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,710 Views
19 Pages

A Winter-to-Summer Transition of Bacterial and Archaeal Communities in Arctic Sea Ice

  • Stefan Thiele,
  • Julia E. Storesund,
  • Mar Fernández-Méndez,
  • Philipp Assmy and
  • Lise Øvreås

The Arctic is warming 2–3 times faster than the global average, leading to a decrease in Arctic sea ice extent, thickness, and associated changes in sea ice structure. These changes impact sea ice habitat properties and the ice-associated ecosy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,961 Views
18 Pages

Remote Sensing Detection of Algal Blooms in a Lake Impacted by Petroleum Hydrocarbons

  • Giovanni Laneve,
  • Milena Bruno,
  • Arghya Mukherjee,
  • Valentina Messineo,
  • Roberto Giuseppetti,
  • Rita De Pace,
  • Fabio Magurano and
  • Emilio D'Ugo

28 December 2021

The purpose of this study was to combine all available information on the state of Lake Pertusillo (Basilicata, Italy), both in the field and published, which included Sentinel-2A satellite data, to understand algal blooms in a lacustrine environment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,652 Views
19 Pages

Seasonal Dynamics of Planktonic Algae in the Danjiangkou Reservoir: Nutrient Fluctuations and Ecological Implications

  • Mengyao Wu,
  • Hailong Yan,
  • Songhan Fu,
  • Xiaxian Han,
  • Mengzhao Jia,
  • Miaomiao Dou,
  • Han Liu,
  • Nicola Fohrer,
  • Beata Messyasz and
  • Yuying Li

7 January 2025

Freshwater reservoirs serve as vital water sources for numerous residential areas. However, the excessive presence of nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, stimulates rapid algal proliferation, leading to the occurrence of algal blooms. To prev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,219 Views
14 Pages

A Sediment Diagenesis Model of Seasonal Nitrate and Ammonium Flux Spatial Variation Contributing to Eutrophication at Taihu, China

  • Linda Sarpong,
  • Yiping Li,
  • Eyram Norgbey,
  • Amechi S. Nwankwegu,
  • Yue Cheng,
  • Salifu Nasiru,
  • Isaac Kwesi Nooni and
  • Victor Edem Setordjie

Algal blooms have thrived on the third-largest shallow lake in China, Taihu over the past decade. Due to the recycling of nutrients such as nitrate and ammonium, this problem has been difficult to eradicate. Sediment flux, a product of diagenesis, ex...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,493 Views
23 Pages

Succession of Microbial Community in a Small Water Body within the Alluvial Aquifer of a Large River

  • Antonija Kulaš,
  • Tamara Marković,
  • Petar Žutinić,
  • Katarina Kajan,
  • Igor Karlović,
  • Sandi Orlić,
  • Emre Keskin,
  • Vilim Filipović and
  • Marija Gligora Udovič

6 January 2021

Nitrogen is one of the essential elements limiting growth in aquatic environments. Being primarily of anthropogenic origin, it exerts negative impacts on freshwater ecosystems. The present study was carried out at the nitrate-vulnerable zone within t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,400 Views
15 Pages

Monitoring Cyanobacterial Blooms during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Campania, Italy: The Case of Lake Avernus

  • Roberta Teta,
  • Gerardo Della Sala,
  • Germana Esposito,
  • Mariano Stornaiuolo,
  • Silvia Scarpato,
  • Marco Casazza,
  • Aniello Anastasio,
  • Massimiliano Lega and
  • Valeria Costantino

8 July 2021

Cyanobacteria are ubiquitous photosynthetic microorganisms considered as important contributors to the formation of Earth’s atmosphere and to the process of nitrogen fixation. However, they are also frequently associated with toxic blooms, named cyan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,003 Views
15 Pages

Algal Pigment Estimation Models to Assess Bloom Toxicity in a South American Lake

  • Lien Rodríguez-López,
  • David Francisco Bustos Usta,
  • Lisandra Bravo Alvarez,
  • Iongel Duran-Llacer,
  • Luc Bourrel,
  • Frederic Frappart,
  • Rolando Cardenas and
  • Roberto Urrutia

22 December 2024

In this study, we build an empirical model to estimate pigments in the South American Lake Villarrica. We use data from Dirección General de Aguas de Chile during the period of 1989–2024 to analyze the behavior of limnological parameters...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,145 Views
17 Pages

7 July 2025

This study aimed to investigate phytoplankton dynamics and water quality at three drinking water intakes (Duchang, Hukou, and Xingzi) in Poyang Lake through monthly monitoring from May 2023 to April 2024. The results showed that a total of 168 specie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
9,527 Views
26 Pages

Mapping Aquatic Vegetation in a Large, Shallow Eutrophic Lake: A Frequency-Based Approach Using Multiple Years of MODIS Data

  • Xiaohan Liu,
  • Yunlin Zhang,
  • Kun Shi,
  • Yongqiang Zhou,
  • Xiangming Tang,
  • Guangwei Zhu and
  • Boqiang Qin

12 August 2015

Aquatic vegetation serves many important ecological and socioeconomic functions in lake ecosystems. The presence of floating algae poses difficulties for accurately estimating the distribution of aquatic vegetation in eutrophic lakes. We present an a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,909 Views
19 Pages

Temporal–Spatial Variations in Physicochemical Factors and Assessing Water Quality Condition in River–Lake System of Chaohu Lake Basin, China

  • Li Wu,
  • Kai Liu,
  • Ziqi Wang,
  • Yujie Yang,
  • Rui Sang,
  • Haoyue Zhu,
  • Xitong Wang,
  • Yuqing Pang,
  • Jiangshan Tong and
  • Fan Liu
  • + 4 authors

3 March 2025

Eutrophication and algal blooms have frequently occurred in Chaohu Lake. Water parameters interact with eutrophication and algal blooms. However, there are few studies on the spatial–temporal characteristics of water parameters in the Chaohu La...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,471 Views
13 Pages

Atmospheric Stilling Promotes Summer Algal Growth in Eutrophic Shallow Lakes

  • Wei Zou,
  • Guangwei Zhu,
  • Hai Xu,
  • Mengyuan Zhu,
  • Chaoxuan Guo,
  • Boqiang Qin and
  • Yunlin Zhang

23 November 2021

Algal blooms are environmental challenges confronting lakes worldwide and are significantly influenced by chlorophyll a yields per unit phosphorus (Chla/TP), or nitrogen (Chla/TN). Here, the influence of inter-annual hydrometeorological variations on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
820 Views
18 Pages

10 October 2025

The increased presence of harmful algal blooms (HABs) is a concern for many aquatic environments, especially with the increasing effects of climate change. Members of the dinoflagellate genus Dinophysis have been shown to produce toxins that can caus...

  • Interesting Images
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,454 Views
9 Pages

Short-Lived Aggregations of Filograna/Salmacina Tube Worms in the Gulf of Oman

  • Kaveh Samimi-Namin,
  • Harry A. ten Hove,
  • Michel R. Claereboudt,
  • Gustav Paulay and
  • Bert W. Hoeksema

26 October 2022

Dense aggregations of serpulid worms were encountered in the Daymaniyat Islands (Gulf of Oman) from 10 to 20 m depth, over the period January–March, 2021. The species responsible for these aggregations belongs to the Filograna/Salmacina-complex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,850 Views
20 Pages

Performance Analysis of MODIS 500-m Spatial Resolution Products for Estimating Chlorophyll-a Concentrations in Oligo- to Meso-Trophic Waters Case Study: Itumbiara Reservoir, Brazil

  • Igor Ogashawara,
  • Enner H. Alcântara,
  • Marcelo P. Curtarelli,
  • Marcos Adami,
  • Renata F. F. Nascimento,
  • Arley F. Souza,
  • José L. Stech and
  • Milton Kampel

20 February 2014

Monitoring chlorophyll-a (chl-a) concentrations is important for the management of water quality, because it is a good indicator of the eutrophication level in an aquatic system. Thus, our main purpose was to develop an alternative technique to monit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,387 Views
15 Pages

Seasonal Succession of Phytoplankton Functional Groups and Driving Factors of Cyanobacterial Blooms in a Subtropical Reservoir in South China

  • Lingai Yao,
  • Xuemin Zhao,
  • Guang-Jie Zhou,
  • Rongchang Liang,
  • Ting Gou,
  • Beicheng Xia,
  • Siyang Li and
  • Chang Liu

19 April 2020

Freshwater phytoplankton communities can be classified into a variety of functional groups that are based on physiological, morphological, and ecological characteristics. This classification method was used to study the temporal and spatial changes i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,185 Views
12 Pages

2 July 2023

Harmful algal blooms are one of the leading causes of mortality in salmon aquaculture, with significant economic consequences. From 15 to 31 October 1996, a bloom of the skeletonized form of Octactis speculum (Ehrenberg) F.H. Chang, J.M. Grieve &...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,291 Views
22 Pages

Towards the Early Detection of Gymnodinium catenatum Algal Blooms in the Northern Gulf of California

  • Gabriela Reséndiz-Colorado,
  • Ernesto García-Mendoza,
  • Antonio Almazán-Becerril,
  • Jennifer Medina-Elizalde,
  • Jushiro A. Cepeda-Morales and
  • Juan P. Rivera-Caicedo

14 September 2023

The annual occurrence of harmful algal blooms (HABs) of the dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum in the northern Gulf of California (NGC) during winter and spring has negative ecological, economic, and social impacts on the local coastal population....

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,542 Views
19 Pages

Seasonal Monitoring Method for TN and TP Based on Airborne Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Images

  • Lei Dong,
  • Cailan Gong,
  • Xinhui Wang,
  • Yang Wang,
  • Daogang He,
  • Yong Hu,
  • Lan Li and
  • Zhe Yang

30 April 2024

Airborne sensing images harness the combined advantages of hyperspectral and high spatial resolution, offering precise monitoring methods for local-scale water quality parameters in small water bodies. This study employs airborne hyperspectral remote...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,565 Views
15 Pages

Filamentous Algae Blooms in a Large, Clear-Water Lake: Potential Drivers and Reduced Benthic Primary Production

  • Maycee Page,
  • Tobias Goldhammer,
  • Sabine Hilt,
  • Scott Tolentino and
  • Soren Brothers

5 July 2022

An apparent proliferation of filamentous algal blooms (FABs) in pristine lakes around the world is a source of concern. However, little is known about the predominant drivers and effects of such FABs on lake ecosystems. We observed FABs in a large cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,318 Views
17 Pages

Depth-Dependent Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Overwintering Pelagic Microcystis in a Temperate Water Body

  • Haolun Tian,
  • Junjie Jin,
  • Bojian Chen,
  • Daniel D. Lefebvre,
  • Stephen C. Lougheed and
  • Yuxiang Wang

Cyanobacteria in the genus Microcystis are dominant components of many harmful algal blooms worldwide. Their pelagic–benthic life cycle helps them survive periods of adverse conditions and contributes greatly to their ecological success. Many studies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,253 Views
13 Pages

Enhancing Biocontrol of Harmful Algae Blooms: Seasonal Variation in Allelopathic Capacity of Myriophyllum aquaticum

  • Rafael Shinji Akiyama Kitamura,
  • Ana Roberta Soares da Silva,
  • Thomaz Aurelio Pagioro and
  • Lúcia Regina Rocha Martins

24 June 2023

Myriophyllum aquaticum has shown potential allelopathic effects for the biocontrol of cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins. However, the composition of allelochemicals and their biological effects may be influenced by seasonal changes. In this study, we inv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,286 Views
25 Pages

Spatiotemporal Variability of Chlorophyll-a and Sea Surface Temperature, and Their Relationship with Bathymetry over the Coasts of UAE

  • Khalid A. Hussein,
  • Khameis Al Abdouli,
  • Dawit T. Ghebreyesus,
  • Pakorn Petchprayoon,
  • Naeema Al Hosani and
  • Hatim O. Sharif

23 June 2021

The catastrophic implication of harmful algal bloom (HAB) events in the Arabian Gulf is a strong indication that the study of the spatiotemporal distribution of chlorophyll-a and its relationship with other variables is critical. This study analyzes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,888 Views
16 Pages

Multivariate Environmental Factors and Seasonal Spatial Dynamics Affecting the Phytoplankton Community in Yazhou Bay, South China Sea

  • Zhida Yu,
  • Zhiyuan Ouyang,
  • Chuanyang Zheng,
  • Zhen Wang,
  • Xiaoming Fu,
  • Haiping Cui,
  • Yadong Huang,
  • Zitao Zhang and
  • Chenhui Xiang

6 November 2024

This study investigated phytoplankton and water environmental factors in Yazhou Bay, South China Sea, during the winter, spring, and summer of 2023. It examined phytoplankton community structure, subgroup heterogeneity, and key environmental drivers....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,192 Views
19 Pages

Rainfall-induced freshwater influx is a major nutrient source in estuarine and coastal waters, often driving changes in phytoplankton community structure and blooms. In Jinhae Bay of Korea, a critical area for shellfish aquaculture, the interaction b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,391 Views
13 Pages

Effects of Global Warming on the Growth and Proliferation of Attached Sargassum horneri in the Aquaculture Area near Gouqi Island, China

  • Tingjian Wu,
  • Lihua Xia,
  • Minmin Zhuang,
  • Jiayu Pan,
  • Jinlin Liu,
  • Wei Dai,
  • Zitao Zhao,
  • Meijing Zhang,
  • Xiyu Shen and
  • Yutao Qin
  • + 2 authors

With global warming, in recent years, golden tides have frequently occurred off the coasts of China. Sargassum horneri, which attach to aquaculture rafts, can float and form small-scale golden tides after falling off. Temperature will affect the grow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
865 Views
17 Pages

30 May 2025

Different communities of primary producers were surveyed in a series of five river reservoirs on the Sava River in southeast Slovenia. Seasonal differences of phytoplanktonic and phytobenthic communities were studied in the reservoirs of hydroelectri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,687 Views
20 Pages

Domoic Acid and Pseudo-nitzschia spp. Connected to Coastal Upwelling along Coastal Inhambane Province, Mozambique: A New Area of Concern

  • Holly Kelchner,
  • Katie E. Reeve-Arnold,
  • Kathryn M. Schreiner,
  • Sibel Bargu,
  • Kim G. Roques and
  • Reagan M. Errera

15 December 2021

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are increasing globally in frequency, persistence, and geographic extent, posing a threat to ecosystem and human health. To date, no occurrences of marine phycotoxins have been recorded in Mozambique, which may be due to a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,257 Views
17 Pages

17 May 2016

Regionally calibrated algorithms for water quality are strongly needed, especially for optically complex waters such as coastal areas in the Arabian Gulf. In this study, a regional qualitative algorithm was proposed to retrieve seawater transparency,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
8,889 Views
16 Pages

Historical Trends, Drivers, and Future Projections of Ice Phenology in Small North Temperate Lakes in the Laurentian Great Lakes Region

  • Bailey A. Hewitt,
  • Lianna S. Lopez,
  • Katrina M. Gaibisels,
  • Alyssa Murdoch,
  • Scott N. Higgins,
  • John J. Magnuson,
  • Andrew M. Paterson,
  • James A. Rusak,
  • Huaxia Yao and
  • Sapna Sharma

15 January 2018

Lake ice phenology (timing of ice breakup and freeze up) is a sensitive indicator of climate. We acquired time series of lake ice breakup and freeze up, local weather conditions, and large-scale climate oscillations from 1981–2015 for seven lakes in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,591 Views
23 Pages

Understanding water quality events in a multiple-impoundment series is important but seldom presented comprehensively. Therefore, this study was conducted to systematically understand the explosion event of geosmin (GSM) in the North Han River (Chunc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,042 Views
27 Pages

Phytoplankton Diversity, Abundance and Toxin Synthesis Potential in the Lakes of Natural and Urban Landscapes in Permafrost Conditions

  • Sophia Barinova,
  • Viktor A. Gabyshev,
  • Olga I. Gabysheva,
  • Yanzhima A. Naidanova and
  • Ekaterina G. Sorokovikova

27 March 2025

The region of Eastern Siberia that we have been studying is situated in Yakutia in the permafrost area. We studied five lakes of various geneses, located both in the urbanized territory of Yakutsk city and its suburbs and in natural landscapes at a d...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,690 Views
17 Pages

Seasonal Stratification Characteristics of Vertical Profiles and Water Quality of Lake Lugu in Southwest China

  • Fengqin Chang,
  • Pengfei Hou,
  • Xinyu Wen,
  • Lizeng Duan,
  • Yang Zhang and
  • Hucai Zhang

19 August 2022

According to the vertical section monitoring data of Lake Lugu water temperature (WT), electrical conductivity (EC), dissolved oxygen (DO), pH and chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) parameters in January (winter), April (spring), July (summer), and October (autum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,792 Views
17 Pages

24 February 2019

The geochemical study of iron isotopes is of great significance to comprehensively understand the surface material circulation process and its environmental effects in surface and subsurface environments. Eutrophic lakes are an important part of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,159 Views
18 Pages

Seasonal Dynamics of Phytoplankton Communities in Relation to Water Quality in Poyang Lake, China

  • Gnoumasse Sidibe,
  • Liang Gan,
  • He Liu,
  • Sahr Lamin Sumana,
  • Abdulai Merry Kamara and
  • Ligang Xu

Poyang Lake, China’s largest freshwater lake, is an ecologically significant but increasingly vulnerable system threatened by eutrophication and harmful algal blooms driven by human activities. Phytoplankton organisms, as primary producers and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,211 Views
18 Pages

Water Quality of Lake Erhai in Southwest China and Its Projected Status in the near Future

  • Tianbao Xu,
  • Wei Ma,
  • Jun Chen,
  • Lizeng Duan,
  • Huayu Li and
  • Hucai Zhang

27 March 2024

The water quality of Lake Erhai has deteriorated in recent decades due to socioeconomic development in the lake basin. After the massive implementation of water environmental protection measures in Lake Erhai in 2016, the trend of water quality deter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,953 Views
15 Pages

Red Sea MODIS Estimates of Chlorophyll a and Phytoplankton Biomass Risks to Saudi Arabian Coastal Desalination Plants

  • M. N. Gomaa,
  • D. J. Mulla,
  • J. C. Galzki,
  • K. M. Sheikho,
  • N. M. Alhazmi,
  • H. E. Mohamed,
  • I. Hannachi,
  • A. M. Abouwarda,
  • E. A. Hassan and
  • W. W. Carmichael

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) and the high biomass associated with them have afflicted marine desalination plants along coastal regions around the world. Few studies of HABs have been conducted in the Red Sea, where desalination plants along the Saudi...