Sentences with phrase «on cyanobacteria blooms»

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After measuring BMAA levels in cyanobacteria blooms in the Baltic Sea and in the plankton, fish and mussels that feed on them, researchers from Stockholm University in Sweden concluded that, BMAA levels were six times higher in plankton and up to 200 times higher in some fish than in the blooms.

Since the detection of the toxin microcystin left nearly half a million Ohio and Michigan residents without drinking water for several days in early August, discussions of ways to prevent a recurrence have largely focused on the need to reduce the amount of phosphorus fertilizer that washes off croplands and flows into western Lake Erie to trigger harmful cyanobacteria blooms.

Based on the link between ALS and the neurotoxin in other parts of the world, Stommel and his colleagues hypothesize that the lake's cyanobacteria blooms could be a factor.

We're coming up on the time of year when people will be testing lakes for toxic blooms of cyanobacteria.