Ted D Harris, Kaitlin L Reinl, Marzi Azarderakhsh, Stella A Berger, Manuel Castro Berman, Mina Bizic, Ruchi Bhattacharya, Sarah H Burnet, Jacob A Cianci-Gaskill, Lisette N de Senerpont Domis, Inge Elfferich, K Ali Ger, Hans-Peter F Grossart, Bas W Ibelings, Danny Ionescu, Zohreh Mazaheri Kouhanestani, Jonas Mauch, Yvonne R McElarney, Veronica Nava, Rebecca L North, Igor Ogashawara, Ma Cristina A Paule-Mercado, Sara Soria-Píriz, Xinyu Sun, Jessica V Trout-Haney, Gesa A Weyhenmeyer, Kiyoko Yokota, Qing Zhan
Cyanobacterial blooms present substantial challenges to managers and threaten ecological and public health. Although the majority of cyanobacterial bloom research and management focuses on factors that control bloom initiation, duration, toxicity, and geographical extent, relatively little research focuses on the role of loss processes in blooms and how these processes are regulated. Here, we define a loss process in terms of population dynamics as any process that removes cells from a population, thereby decelerating or reducing the development and extent of blooms...
March 2024: Harmful Algae