Phytoplankton enumeration and identification from recurring algal bloom locations in Kabetogama Lake, northern Minnesota, 2016-2017

Publication Date

2019-05-22

Start Date

2016-06-02

End Date

2017-09-19

Christensen, V.G., and Olds, H.T., 2019, Phytoplankton enumeration and identification from recurring algal bloom locations in Kabetogama Lake, northern Minnesota, 2016-2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XO3SGF.

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The overall purpose of the proposed research is to better understand the drivers of bloom toxicity, including environmental and water-quality factors, and changes throughout the open water season in cyanobacterial community structure (in terms of abundance, species composition, and toxin production capability) so that resource managers may better predict, manage, and mitigate the occurrence of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms. In support of the overall purpose of the project, it is important to understand how the community structure of the bloom changes as toxin production begins. The phytoplankton community in the cyanobacterial blooms of Kabetogama Lake has included significant biovolumes of Microcystis and Anabaena (Christensen and others, 2011), known toxin producing genera.

• USGS Data Release Products
• Upper Midwest Water Science Center