What drives the distribution of the bloom-forming cyanobacteria Planktothrix agardhii and Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii?

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 594-607

  Bonilla, Sylvia ^a   Aubriot, Luis ^a   Soares, Maria Carolina S ^b   González Piana, Mauricio ^a   Fabre, Amelia ^a   Huszar, Vera L M ^c   Lürling, Miquel ^d,e   Antoniades, Dermot ^a   Padisák, Judit ^f   Kruk, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Climate change; Eutrophication; Invasive species; Nostocales; Oscillatoriales; Shallow lakes

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ADAPTATION; ALGAL BLOOM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; EUTROPHICATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; GROWTH RATE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAKE; LATITUDE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LIGHT EFFECT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHOSPHORUS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENT; SHALLOW WATER; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; ENVIRONMENT; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE; CYANOBACTERIA; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; ENVIRONMENT; EUTROPHICATION; FRESH WATER; PHYTOPLANKTON; TEMPERATURE;

CYANOBACTERIA; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII; NOSTOCALES; OSCILLATORIALES; PLANKTOTHRIX AGARDHII;

EID: 84856041263     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01242.x     Document Type: Article

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