What makes a cyanobacterial bloom disappear? A review of the abiotic and biotic cyanobacterial bloom loss factors
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2024-02-09
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Elsevier
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Cyanobacterial blooms present substantial challenges to managers and threaten ecological and public health. Although the majority of cyanobacterial bloom research and management focuses on factors that control bloom initiation, duration, toxicity, and geographical extent, relatively little research focuses on the role of loss processes in blooms and how these processes are regulated. Here, we define a loss process in terms of population dynamics as any process that removes cells from a population, thereby decelerating or reducing the development and extent of blooms. We review abiotic (e.g., hydraulic flushing and oxidative stress/UV light) and biotic factors (e.g., allelopathic compounds, infections, grazing, and resting cells/programmed cell death) known to govern bloom loss. We found that the dominant loss processes depend on several system specific factors including cyanobacterial genera-specific traits, in situ physicochemical conditions, and the microbial, phytoplankton, and consumer community composition. We also address loss processes in the context of bloom management and discuss perspectives and challenges in predicting how a changing climate may directly and indirectly affect loss processes on blooms. A deeper understanding of bloom loss processes and their underlying mechanisms may help to mitigate the negative consequences of cyanobacterial blooms and improve current management strategies.
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Publication history: Accepted - 5 February 2024; Published online - 9 February 2024.
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cyanobacteria, HABs, cell death, sedimentation, grazing, loss processes
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Harris, T.D., Reinl, K.L., Azarderakhsh, M., Berger, S.A., Berman, M.C., Bizic, M., Bhattacharya, R., Burnet, S.H., Cianci-Gaskill, J.A., Domis, L.N. de S., Elfferich, I., Ger, K.A., Grossart, H.-P.F., Ibelings, B.W., Ionescu, D., Kouhanestani, Z.M., Mauch, J., McElarney, Y.R., Nava, V., North, R.L., Ogashawara, I., Paule-Mercado, Ma.C.A., Soria-Píriz, S., Sun, X., Trout-Haney, J.V., Weyhenmeyer, G.A., Yokota, K. and Zhan, Q. (2024) ‘What makes a cyanobacterial bloom disappear? A review of the abiotic and biotic cyanobacterial bloom loss factors’, Harmful Algae. Elsevier BV. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2024.102599.