Florida's harmful algal bloom (HAB) problem: Escalating risks to human, environmental and economic health with climate change

CA Heil, AL Muni-Morgan - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) pose unique risks to the citizens, stakeholders, visitors,
environment and economy of the state of Florida. Florida has been historically subjected to …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of climate variability on florida's major water resources

SE Haque - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Emerging changes in water availability in the US state of Florida have been recognized as a
combined result of human perturbations, natural variability, and climate change. Florida is …

Spatiotemporal diversity and community structure of cyanobacteria and associated bacteria in the large shallow subtropical Lake Okeechobee (Florida, United States)

FW Lefler, M Barbosa, PV Zimba, AR Smyth… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Lake Okeechobee is a large eutrophic, shallow, subtropical lake in south Florida, United
States. Due to decades of nutrient loading and phosphorus rich sediments, the lake is …

Studies on DNA fragmentation and cell integrity of rapidly hydroxyl radical inactivated Microcystis aeruginosa

Q Zheng, C Tian, Y Zhang, M Bai, P Liang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microcystis aeruginosa (M. aeruginosa) blooms occur frequently in freshwater lakes and
reservoirs, posing a great threaten to drinking water safety. When using conventional …

Modeling of the Atmospheric Process of Cyanobacterial Toxins in Algal Aerosol

V Zorbas, M Jang, B Emam, J Choi - ACS Earth and Space …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The degradation of microcystin-LR (MC-LR) in cyanobacterial aerosol with atmospheric
oxidants, such as ozone and OH radicals, was predicted by the Harmful Algal Aerosol …

Genomic Insights into the Taxonomy and Metabolism of the Cyanobacterium Pannus brasiliensis CCIBt3594

MJ Machado, NB Botero, APD Andreote, AMT Feitosa… - Taxonomy, 2024 - mdpi.com
The freshwater Pannus genus comprises cyanobacterial unicellular species with a particular
morphology, forming free-floating rounded colonies with thin, homogenous, and colorless …

Transcriptional profiles of Microcystis reveal gene expression shifts that promote bloom persistence in in situ mesocosms

LE Krausfeldt, PS Samuel, RP Smith… - Microbiology …, 2025 - journals.asm.org
Harmful algal blooms caused by cyanobacteria threaten aquatic ecosystems, the economy,
and human health. Previous work has tried to identify the mechanisms that allow blooms to …

Novel diversity within Roseofilum (Desertifilaceae, Cyanobacteria) from marine benthic mats with description of four new species

Y Wang, DE Berthold, J Hu, FW Lefler… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Benthic cyanobacterial mats (BCMs) are natural phenomena in marine environments.
Reports of BCMs occurring across coastal marine environments have increased, partly …

Iningainema tapete sp. nov.(Scytonemataceae, Cyanobacteria) from greenhouses in central Florida (USA) produces two types of nodularin with biosynthetic potential …

DE Berthold, FW Lefler, IS Huang, H Abdulla, PV Zimba… - Harmful Algae, 2021 - Elsevier
Iningainema is a recently described genus of heterocytous, false-branching cyanobacteria
originally described from Australia. In this work, we present Iningainema tapete sp. nov …