Global warming and hepatotoxin production by cyanobacteria: What can we learn from experiments?

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1420-1429

  El Shehawy, Rehab ^a   Gorokhova, Elena ^b   Fernández Piñas, Francisca ^c   del Campo, Francisca F ^c  

^a IMDEA WATER INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Global warming; Hepatotoxins

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; HEALTH RISKS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CYANOBACTERIA; FOOD WEB INTERACTIONS; GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HEPATOTOXINS; MOLECULAR CHANGES; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY;

GLOBAL WARMING;

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHELATING AGENT; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIN; FRESH WATER; HEPATOTOXIN; IRON; MICROCYSTIN; NODULARIN; SIDEROPHORE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGAL BLOOM; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CYANOBACTERIUM; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GLOBAL WARMING; HEALTH IMPACT; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SANITATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TOXIN;

ALLELOPATHY; APOPTOSIS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); COPEPOD; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOLYSIS; EUTROPHICATION; FISH; FOOD WEB; GRAZER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PH; PHENOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84856662334     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.11.021     Document Type: Article

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