Journal
FRESHWATER BIOLOGY
Volume 66, Issue 9, Pages 1846-1859Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.13791
Keywords
climate change; cyanobacterial blooms; HABs; nutrients; oligotrophic
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Funding
- Great Lakes Restoration Initiative via a National Park Service Cooperative Agreement [P17AC00246]
- European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [722518]
- Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sciences and Technology
- Great Lakes Restoration Initiative through the US EPA Great Lakes National Program Office
- U.S. National Science Foundation [DBI-1933016, DEB-1753639]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [RGPIN-2018-06389]
- SUNY Oneonta Faculty Development Grant
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This review examines the evidence and explanations for cyanobacterial blooms in oligotrophic freshwater systems, highlighting the unique physiological adaptations of cyanobacteria that allow them to thrive in low-nutrient conditions. To fully understand and effectively manage cyanobacterial blooms, research should expand to consider systems along the trophic gradient rather than solely focusing on eutrophic systems.
Freshwater cyanobacterial blooms have become ubiquitous, posing major threats to ecological and public health. Decades of research have focused on understanding drivers of these blooms with a primary focus on eutrophic systems; however, cyanobacterial blooms also occur in oligotrophic systems, but have received far less attention, resulting in a gap in our understanding of cyanobacterial blooms overall. In this review, we explore evidence of cyanobacterial blooms in oligotrophic freshwater systems and provide explanations for those occurrences. We show that through their unique physiological adaptations, cyanobacteria are able to thrive under a wide range of environmental conditions, including low-nutrient waterbodies. We contend that to fully understand cyanobacterial blooms, and thereby mitigate and manage them, we must expand our inquiries to consider systems along the trophic gradient, and not solely focus on eutrophic systems, thus shifting the high-nutrient paradigm to a trophic-gradient paradigm.
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