Journal
HARMFUL ALGAE
Volume 81, Issue -, Pages 86-93Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2018.11.003
Keywords
Harmful algal blooms; Nitrogen; Lake Erie; Microcystis
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- Ohio Sea Grant [R/ER-114, R/ER-113]
- National Science Foundation [1715909]
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1715909] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Western Lake Erie (WLE) experiences anthropogenic eutrophication and annual, toxic cyanobacterial blooms of non-nitrogen (N) fixing Microcystis. Numerous studies have shown that bloom biomass is correlated with an increased proportion of soluble reactive phosphorus loading from the Maumee River. Long term monitoring shows that the proportion of the annual Maumee River N load of non-nitrate N, or total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), has also increased significantly (Spearman's rho = 0.68, p = 0.001) over the last few decades and is also significantly correlated to cyanobacterial bloom biomass (Spearman's rho = 0.64, p = 0.003). The ratio of chemically reduced N to oxidized N (TKN:NO3) concentrations was also compared to extracted chlorophyll and phycocyanin concentrations from all weekly sampling stations within WLE from 2009 to 2015. Both chlorophyll (Spearman's rho = 0.657, p < 0.0001) and phycocyanin (Spearman's rho = 0.714, p < 0.0001) were significantly correlated with TKN:NO3. This correlation between the increasing fraction of chemically reduced N from the Maumee River and increasing bloom biomass demonstrates the urgent need to control N loading, in addition to current P load reductions, to WLE and similar systems impacted by non -N-fixing, toxin-producing cyanobacteria.
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