The contribution of volunteer-based monitoring data to the assessment of harmful phytoplankton blooms in Brazilian urban streams

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 584-585, Issue , 2017, Pages 586-594

  Cunha, Davi Gasparini Fernandes ^a   Casali, Simone Pereira ^a   de Falco, Patrícia Bortoletto ^b   Thornhill, Ian ^c   Loiselle, Steven Arthur ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^c EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Cyanobacteria; Eutrophication; Nutrients; Urban water bodies

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEMS; EUTROPHICATION; NUTRIENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVERS; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATION; NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICS; PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY; PHYTOPLANKTON DENSITIES; URBAN WATER BODIES;

RIVER POLLUTION;

PHOSPHATE; FRESH WATER;

ALGAL BLOOM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CYANOBACTERIUM; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUTRIENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; SAMPLING; STREAMWATER; VOLUNTARY APPROACH; WATER QUALITY;

ALGAL BLOOM; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COLORIMETRY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TURBIDITY; URBAN AREA; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING; CITY; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROCEDURES; RIVER; SEASON; VOLUNTEER;

BRAZIL;

CYANOBACTERIA;

BRAZIL; CITIES; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; CYANOBACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVERS; SEASONS; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 85028257497     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.01.080     Document Type: Article

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