Occurrence of cyanobacteria and cyanotoxin in the Southern Baltic Proper. Filamentous cyanobacteria versus single-celled picocyanobacteria

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 701, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 235-252

  Mazur Marzec, Hanna ^a   Sutryk, Katarzyna ^a   Kobos, Justyna ^a   Hebel, Agnieszka ^a   Hohlfeld, Natalia ^a   Błaszczyk, Agata ^a   Toruńska, Anna ^a   Kaczkowska, Monika J ^a   Łysiak Pastuszak, Elzbieta ^b   Kraśniewski, Wojciech ^b   Jasser, Iwona ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Maritime Branch Gdynia   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aphanizomenon flos aquae; Bioaccumulation; Diazotrophic cyanobacteria; Nodularia spumigena; Nodularin; Picocyanobacteria; Synechococcus spp.

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIVALVE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYANOBACTERIUM; FILAMENTOUS ALGA; FISH; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PERCIFORM; PICOPLANKTON; TOXIN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

APHANIZOMENON; APHANIZOMENON FLOS-AQUAE; APOLLONIA MELANOSTOMUS; CYANOBACTERIA; MYTILUS EDULIS; NODULARIA; NODULARIA SPUMIGENA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 84870790080     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1278-7     Document Type: Article

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