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dc.contributor.authorHamilton, David P
dc.contributor.authorSalmaso, Nico
dc.contributor.authorPaerl, Hans W
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-12T05:14:21Z
dc.date.available2017-05-12T05:14:21Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.issn1386-2588
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10452-016-9594-z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/336692
dc.description.abstractHarmful blooms of cyanobacteria (CyanoHABs) have increased globally and cyanotoxins associated with some CyanoHAB species pose serious health risks for animals and humans. CyanoHABs are sensitive to supply rates of both nitrogen and phosphorus, but sensitivity may vary among species (e.g., between diazotrophic and non-diazotrophic species) and a range of physiographic and environmental factors. A sustainable approach to manage CyanoHABs is therefore to limit the supply of nitrogen and phosphorus from catchments to receiving waters. Alternative approaches of within-lake treatment have increased risks and large capital and operational expenditure. The need to manage catchment nutrient loads will intensify with climate change, due to expected increases in nutrient remineralization rates, alteration in hydrological regimes, and increases in lake water temperature and density stratification. Many CyanoHAB species have physiological features that enable them to benefit from the effects of climate change, including positive buoyancy or buoyancy control, high replication rates at elevated water temperature, and nutrient uptake strategies adapted for the intermittency of nutrient supply with greater hydrological variability expected in the future. Greater attention needs to be focused on nonpoint sources of nutrients, including source control, particularly maintaining nitrogen and phosphorus in agricultural soils at or below agronomic optimum levels, and enhancing natural attenuation processes in water and solute transport pathways. Efforts to achieve effective catchment management and avert the dire ecological, human health and economic consequences of CyanoHABs must be intensified in an era of anthropogenically driven environmental change arising from increasing human population, climate change and agricultural intensification.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom351
dc.relation.ispartofpageto366
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAquatic Ecology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume50
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEcology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEcology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3103
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode310399
dc.titleMitigating harmful cyanobacterial blooms: strategies for control of nitrogen and phosphorus loads
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorHamilton, David P.


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