An algal bloom or algae bloom is a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in freshwater or marine water systems. It is often recognized...

A harmful algal bloom (HAB), or excessive algae growth, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms by production of natural algae-produced...

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 to hurricanes...

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...

wastewater, and fertilizer runoff. Such nutrient pollution usually causes algal blooms and bacterial growth, resulting in the depletion of dissolved oxygen...

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

lethal effects appeared in Nature in 1878. George Francis described the algal bloom he observed in the estuary of the Murray River in Australia, as "a thick...

provide the food base for most marine food chains. In very high densities (algal blooms), these algae may discolor the water and outcompete, poison, or asphyxiate...

sporadic bouts, referred to as algal blooms, the term "superbloom" is sometimes applied to especially prolific short-term algal growth that causes discoloration...

to global carbon and nitrogen fluxes. Some cyanobacteria form harmful algal blooms causing the disruption of aquatic ecosystem services and intoxication...

these regions, and adding it can lead to the formation of phytoplankton algal blooms. Iron primarily reaches the ocean through the deposition of dust on the...

Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB)". National Weather Service. Archived from the original on August 12, 2019. Henry, Tom (August 7, 2019). "Summer algal bloom coming...

on a flowering plant Algal bloom, a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in an aquatic system Jellyfish bloom, a collective noun for...

has media related to Algal blooms. Algaculture – Aquaculture involving the farming of algae AlgaeBase – Species database Algal bloom – Spread of planktonic...

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 oceans...

affected each year. Algal blooms can cause water bills to increase in this area $100 per year for a family of five. The effects of these blooms go beyond higher...

through changes to food webs and prey availability. Additionally, harmful algal blooms (HABs) can negatively impact many planktivores and can transfer harmful...

driving biological and biogeochemical processes in the ocean such as algal blooms and the carbon cycle. Eddies have a re-stratifying effect, which means...

coincides with the decline of algal blooms, which hints that there is potential role of algicidal bacteria in shaping algal bloom dynamics. Parasitic bacteria...

of the algal bloom can be recorded, and with a second observation at a different time the displacement and intensity change of the algal bloom can be...

These chemical signals affect large scale tropic structures such as algal blooms but propagate by simple diffusion and laminar advective flow. Microalgae...

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...

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 the...

2010. Retrieved December 7, 2016 – via Colorado.edu. "Lake Erie Harmful Algal Bloom". National Weather Service. "Spring Rain, Then Foul Algae in Ailing Lake...

synthases. Cyanobacteria can produce microcystins in large quantities during algal blooms which then pose a major threat to drinking and irrigation water supplies...

for phytoplankton growth. Large algal blooms can be created by supplying iron to iron-deficient ocean waters. These blooms can nourish other organisms. Ocean...

organisms, including algal blooms. Each trophic class supports different types of fish and other organisms, as well. If the algal biomass in a lake or...

harmful phosphates in detergents, warned about algal blooms and dead zones, "The fish-killing blooms that devastated the Great Lakes in the 1960s and...

explosively. The resulting dense swarm of phytoplankton is called an algal bloom. Blooms can cover hundreds of square kilometres and are easily seen in satellite...

Open-File Report 2017–1005. Descloitres, Jacques (October 23, 2003). "Algal bloom in the Salton Sea, California". Visible Earth. NASA. Retrieved January...