How rising CO2 and global warming may stimulate harmful cyanobacterial blooms

• Published in: Harmful algae Vol. 54; pp. 145 - 159
• Main Authors: Visser, Petra M., Verspagen, Jolanda M.H., Sandrini, Giovanni, Stal, Lucas J., Matthijs, Hans C.P., Davis, Timothy W., Paerl, Hans W., Huisman, Jef
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.04.2016
• Subjects: algae; Bacillariophyceae; bicarbonates; carbon; carbon dioxide; carbon dioxide enrichment; Chlorophyta; Climate change; Cyanobacteria; Dinophyceae; dissolved carbon dioxide; ecosystems; eutrophication; global warming; Harmful algal blooms; Lakes; nitrogen; nitrogen fixation; Rising CO2; Temperature; temperature profiles; water quality; Lakes; Climate change; Rising CO2; Harmful algal blooms; Temperature; Cyanobacteria

•Rising CO2 and global warming favor cyanobacterial blooms in different ways.•Cyanobacteria display genetic diversity in their CO2 and bicarbonate uptake systems.•Rising CO2 enables interception of a larger CO2 influx by surface-dwelling blooms.•Cyanobacteria respond more strongly to rising temperat...