Summer heatwaves promote blooms of harmful cyanobacteria

By Klaus D. Jöhnk, J. Huisman, J. Sharples, Ben P. Sommeijer, P. Visser, J. Stroom. 2008

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Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Oceanography

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Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change (2019, positive): “Increased thermal stratification of lakes and reservoirs enables buoyant cyanobacteria to float upwards and form dense surface blooms, which gives them better access to light and hence a selective advantage over nonbuoyant phytoplankton organisms 202,203 .”
Coupling hydrodynamics and buoyancy regulation in Microcystis aeruginosa for its vertical distribution in lakes (2013, result): “These qualitative results confirm the fast colony dispersion in response to high wind intensities as reported after field measurements by Reynolds and Rogers (1976) and Moreno-Ostos et al. (2009) among others.”
State of knowledge and concerns on cyanobacterial blooms and cyanotoxins. (2013, background): “Consequently, globalwarmingmay increase the frequency and magnitude of cyanobacterial blooms by favoring cyanobacteria among other phytoplankton species (Arheimer et al., 2005; Dale et al., 2006; El-Shehawy et al., 2012; Jöhnk et al., 2008; O'Neil et al., 2012; Paerl and Paul, 2012; Paul, 2008; Wied”
Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms: Causes, Consequences, and Controls (2013, background): “At these elevated temperatures, cyanobacteria routinely outcompete eukaryotic algae [32, 64, 105, 164].”
The seasonal sensitivity of Cyanobacteria and other phytoplankton to changes in flushing rate and water temperature (2010, background): “This has mainly focused on the direct effects of increased water temperature, but some studies have also highlighted the importance of changes in stratification strength and duration (e.g. Jones & Elliott, 2007; Jöhnk et al., 2008).”
Impact of climate warming on European inland waters (2014, background): “Summer blooms of Microcystis species are often boosted by high temperatures combined with reduced wind speed, which enables better growth for this genus with a high temperature optimum (Jöhnk et al. 2008).”
Record-setting algal bloom in Lake Erie caused by agricultural and meteorological trends consistent with expected future conditions (2013, background): “Examples of eutrophic lakes with severe toxic cyanobacterial blooms include Lake Taihu in China (2), Lake Winnipeg in Canada (3), and Lake Nieuwe Meer in The Netherlands (4).”
Impacts of climate change on surface water quality in relation to drinking water production. (2009, background): “Also, it is predicted that especially shallow lakes will experience an increase of temperature in epilimnion and hypolimnion during summer (Jöhnk et al., 2008), although man-made lakes (in The Netherlands) respond even more directly to weather variations (Mooij et al.”
The “nutrient pump:” Iron‐poor sediments fuel low nitrogen‐to‐phosphorus ratios and cyanobacterial blooms in polymictic lakes (2015, background): “…considered a catalyst for the worldwide expansion of cyanobacterial blooms (Paerl and Huisman 2008) because of their responsiveness to higher temperatures (Kosten et al. 2012), the importance of increased variation in lake mixing is gaining recognition (J€ohnk et al. 2008; Wilhelm and Adrian 2008).”
Nutrients and water temperature are significant predictors of cyanobacterial biomass in a 1147 lakes data set (2013, background): “Furthermore, temperature and related factors (e.g., strength of stratification) are increasingly recognized as important predictors of cyanobacterial biomass (CBB) across spatial and temporal gradients (Jöhnk et al. 2008; Kosten et al. 2012; Taranu et al. 2012).”
Exploring, exploiting and evolving diversity of aquatic ecosystem models: a community perspective (2015, neutral): “(| | Jöhnk and Umlauf 2001; Jöhnk et al. 2008).”
Chytrid infections and diatom spring blooms: paradoxical effects of climate warming on fungal epidemics in lakes (2011, background): “Increased water column stability in a warmer future (e.g. Johnk et al., 2008) would select for smaller diatoms.”
Harmful Algal Blooms (2015, background): “…precipitation events with episodes of high material influx to receiving waters favor cHAB taxa that can exploit and store these nutrient pulses, particularly if these events are followed by a protracted warm period or drought (Jöhnk et al., 2008; Aubriot and Bonilla, 2012; Huber et al., 2012).”
Linking traits to species diversity and community structure in phytoplankton (2010, methodology): “Different models have been used to describe this relationship (Ahlgren, 1987, Briand et al., 2004, Jöhnk et al., 2008, Montagnes et al., 2008), but more data are needed to test their generality.”