Abstract
Dominance by cyanobacteria hampers human use of lakes and reservoirs worldwide. Previous studies indicate that excessive nutrient loading and warmer conditions promote dominance by cyanobacteria, but evidence from global scale field data has so far been scarce. Our analysis, based on a study of 143 lakes along a latitudinal transect ranging from subarctic Europe to southern South America, shows that although warmer climates do not result in higher overall phytoplankton biomass, the percentage of the total phytoplankton biovolume attributable to cyanobacteria increases steeply with temperature.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 118-126 |
| Journal | Global Change Biology |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- phytoplankton
- climatology
- cyanobacteria
- temperature
- lakes
- surface water quality
- fish community structure
- trophic state
- phytoplankton community
- mesocosm experiments
- blooms
- nitrogen
- nutrient
- phosphorus
- eutrophication