Drivers of cyanobacterial blooms in a hypertrophic lagoon

M Bartoli, M Zilius, M Bresciani, D Vaiciute… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The Curonian Lagoon is Europe's largest lagoon and one of the most seriously impacted by
harmful blooms of cyanobacteria. Intensive studies over the past 20 years have allowed us …

Nitrogen fixation by cyanobacteria stimulates production in Baltic food webs

AML Karlson, J Duberg, NH Motwani, H Hogfors… - Ambio, 2015 - Springer
Filamentous, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria form extensive summer blooms in the Baltic Sea.
Their ability to fix dissolved N 2 allows cyanobacteria to circumvent the general summer …

N2-fixation, ammonium release and N-transfer to the microbial and classical food web within a plankton community

B Adam, I Klawonn, JB Svedén, J Bergkvist… - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We investigated the role of N2-fixation by the colony-forming cyanobacterium,
Aphanizomenon spp., for the plankton community and N-budget of the N-limited Baltic Sea …

Hot moments and hotspots of cyanobacteria hyperblooms in the Curonian Lagoon (SE Baltic Sea) revealed via remote sensing-based retrospective analysis

D Vaičiūtė, M Bučas, M Bresciani… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
A temporally and spatially detailed historical (1985–2018) analysis of cyanobacteria blooms
was performed in the Curonian Lagoon (Lithuania, Russia), the largest coastal lagoon in the …

Phylogenetic and molecular characteristics of two Aphanizomenon strains from the Curonian Lagoon, Southeastern Baltic Sea and their biological activities

D Overlingė, A Toruńska-Sitarz, M Cegłowska… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Polyphasic approach has become a generally accepted method for the classification of
cyanobacteria. In this study, we present a detailed characterisation of two strains, KUCC C1 …

Eutrophication Increases Phytoplankton Methylmercury Concentrations in a Coastal Sea A Baltic Sea Case Study

AL Soerensen, AT Schartup, E Gustafsson… - Environmental …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Eutrophication is expanding worldwide, but its implication for production and
bioaccumulation of neurotoxic monomethylmercury (MeHg) is unknown. We developed a …

Cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins at the river-estuarine transition

PA Bukaveckas, R Franklin, S Tassone, B Trache… - Harmful algae, 2018 - Elsevier
We examined seasonal and longitudinal patterns in the occurrence of toxic cyanobacteria in
the James River Estuary (Virginia). Highest chlorophyll and cyanobacteria levels were …

Microbial parasites make cyanobacteria blooms less of a trophic dead end than commonly assumed

M Haraldsson, M Gerphagnon, P Bazin… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Parasites exist in every ecosystem and can have large influence on food web structure and
function, yet, we know little about parasites' effect on food web dynamics. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] The response of coastal macrobenthic food-web structure to seasonal and regional variability in organic matter properties

M Szczepanek, MJ Silberberger… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
The quantity and quality of organic matter (OM) available for macrobenthos vary on temporal
and spatial scale, especially in coastal areas, where the seafloor is supplied by both …

Effect of algal blooms on retention of N, Si and P in Europe's largest coastal lagoon

I Vybernaite-Lubiene, M Zilius, G Giordani… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Nutrient fluxes from land to sea are regulated by climatic factors governing hydrologic
loading rates (eg, storm events, snowmelt) and by internal processes within estuaries that …