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Title

Harmful blooms across a longitudinal gradient in central Europe during heatwave: Cyanobacteria biomass, cyanotoxins, and nutrients

Authors

[ 1 ] Instytut Inżynierii Środowiska i Instalacji Budowlanych, Wydział Inżynierii Środowiska i Energetyki, Politechnika Poznańska | [ P ] employee

Scientific discipline (Law 2.0)

[2.10] Environmental engineering, mining and energy

Year of publication

2024

Published in

Ecological Indicators

Journal year: 2024 | Journal volume: vol. 160

Article type

scientific article

Publication language

english

Keywords
EN
  • Cool lakes
  • Diazotrophic cyanobacteria
  • Heat waves
  • North latitude
  • Toxic species
  • Warm lakes
Abstract

EN Climate change has increased the frequency, duration and intensity of heatwaves in Europe. These extreme events result in alterations of physical, chemical, and biological properties of lakes that may synergistically promote cyanobacterial dominance. In our study we focused on cyanobacterial blooms in lakes distributed over a longitudinal gradient in Central Europe during one of the “top ten European heat waves” in summer 2015. 92 lakes were included in the study, located across three climatic subregions: cool northern lakes, situated in Lithuania, temperate northern lakes in Poland, and warm northern lakes in Croatia. The objective of the study was to determine if cyanobacterial biomass, predominant species, and cyanotoxin concentration differed, across the south-north gradient, as a function of water temperature, total phosphorus, and total nitrogen. Statistical significance of observed patterns was tested using the Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test and the generalized linear model. We found the lowest average epilimnion temperature, but the highest average cyanobacterial biomass in the northern, ‘cool’ lakes while the highest average temperature with the lowest average cyanobacterial biomass in the southern, ‘warm’ lakes. The concentration of cyanotoxins was also the highest in the ‘cool’ lakes. Total phosphorus and total nitrogen correlated significantly with cyanobacterial biomass, cyanotoxins concentration and biomass of some cyanobacterial species (mainly Planktothrix agardhii), regardless of the latitude. Only in the ‘cool’ lakes concentration of cyanotoxins (microcystins and anatoxin-a) correlated significantly with cyanobacterial biomass and the biomass of some dominant cyanobacterial species (P. agardhii). Our results emphasized the differences of heat weaves impact on lakes of various latitudes, with the strongest increase in toxic cyanobacterial blooms in northern ‘cool’ lakes, situated in high latitudes. On the other hand, nutrients directly enhanced blooms across all the studied latitudes of Central Europe. The cyanobacteria species dominating in blooms might be recognized as ecological indicators of climate change, especially in the north-eastern part of Europe.

Date of online publication

24.03.2024

Pages (from - to)

111929-1 - 111929-9

DOI

10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.111929

URL

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X24003868?via%3Dihub

Comments

Article Number: 111929

License type

CC BY-NC-ND (attribution - noncommercial - no derivatives)

Open Access Mode

open journal

Open Access Text Version

final published version

Date of Open Access to the publication

at the time of publication

Ministry points / journal

200

Impact Factor

7 [List 2023]

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