A harmful algal bloom (HAB), or excessive algae growth, sometimes called a red tide in marine environments, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts...

algae. An algal bloom affects the whole ecosystem. Consequences range from benign effects, such as feeding of higher trophic levels, to more harmful effects...

visible coloration of the water, colloquially known as red tide (a harmful algal bloom), which can cause shellfish poisoning if humans eat contaminated...

being introduced. Some harmful algal blooms resulting from eutrophication, are toxic to plants and animals. Freshwater algal blooms can pose a threat to...

health from toxins and pathogens detected in the algal mats found in the lake. These harmful algal blooms have a number factors contributing to their occurrence...

a few days, but blooms can last weeks. While some of these blooms are harmless, others fall into the category of harmful algal blooms, or HABs. HABs can...

and lipids) derived from sources such as the offshore breakdown of algal blooms. These compounds can act as surfactants or foaming agents. As the seawater...

surface as sedimentary rocks. The rapid formation of algal mats can result in harmful algal blooms (HABs), also known as red tides or green tides. HABs...

The Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2014 (S. 1254; Pub. L. 113–121 (text) (PDF)) is a U.S. public law that reauthorizes...

lake can produce blooms often beginning in the spring and lasting through the fall. Referred to as harmful algal blooms (HAB), these blooms consist of solid...

more phosphorus into the lake, enabling harmful algal bloom. Along with this algal bloom in 2016, other algal blooms have been found to occur in relation...

cyanobacteria that includes the harmful algal bloom-forming Microcystis aeruginosa. Over the last few decades, cyanobacterial blooms caused by eutrophication...

bahamense variety was nontoxic and found in the Atlantic, but a 1972 toxic algal bloom of Pyrodinium bahamense in Papua New Guinea showed this was not the case...

higher and peak biomass occurred later in the spring.[citation needed] Algal bloom Critical depth Gordon Arthur Riley Plankton Mann, K.H., Lazier, J.R.N...

activities and the red tide outbreak. Evidence from Comau Fiord where a Harmful Algal Bloom caused a mass die of cold water coral reefs was directly linked to...

detected unsafe levels of microcystin in its water supply due to harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie, the shallowest of the Great Lakes. The city issued...

nutrient pollution and feed the algae. This leads to eutrophication and harmful algal bloom. Many countries have banned the use of phosphates in detergent, including...

cyanobacteria that can form harmful algal blooms of economic and ecological importance. They are the most common toxic cyanobacterial bloom in eutrophic fresh...

distinguishes it from a red tide, which is an algal bloom whose toxins lead to harmful effects in people. Although no harmful effects are known, it is recommended...

frequent harmful algal blooms. Also, during droughts, surface waters are even more susceptible to harmful algal blooms and microorganisms. Algal blooms increase...

the Clean Water Act. In recent years, the lake has been prone to harmful algal blooms or HABs. Utah Lake is managed cooperatively by the Utah Division...

Katherine; Fino, Danielle; Shepherd, Adam (2007). "Harmful Algae". US National Office for Harmful Algal Blooms. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008...

of California for a federal disaster declaration Effects of this harmful algal bloom on wildlife included mortality and seizures of a wide variety of...

needed] Most shellfish can store saxitoxin for several weeks after a harmful algal bloom passes, but some, such as butter clams, can store the toxin for up...

due to increased awareness of harmful algal blooms (HABs) and their implications for human and ecosystem health. Blooms have since been characterized...

Viruses are the main agents responsible for the rapid destruction of harmful algal blooms which often kill other marine life. The number of viruses in the...

alga that episodically forms toxic surface aggregations known as harmful algal bloom. The species name akashiwo is from the Japanese for "red tide". Synonyms...

tradeoffs resulting from pH imbalances. Although the drivers of harmful algal blooms (HABs) are poorly understood, they appear to have increased in range...

human consumption. Because of this, A. catenella is categorized as a harmful algal bloom (HAB) species. While in some areas the causes of HABs appears to...

plankton and are present in oceanic waters. They are well-known from harmful algal blooms that cause high mortality of fish. Additionally, they compose a rich...