Anthropogenic and climate-induced change favors toxic cyanobacteria blooms: Evidence from monitoring a highly eutrophic, urban Mediterranean lake

Harmful Algae

Volumn 39, Issue , 2014, Pages 322-333

  Gkelis, Spyros ^a   Papadimitriou, Theodoti ^b   Zaoutsos, Nikos ^a   Leonardos, Ioannis ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anabaena; Climate induced changes; Cyanobacteria; Microcystin (MC); Microcystis; Saxitoxin (STX)

Indexed keywords

ANABAENA; CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS;

EID: 84908397170     PISSN: 15689883     EISSN: 18781470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2014.09.002     Document Type: Article

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