Cyanobacteria : ecology, toxicology and management / Aloysio Da S. Ferrao-Filho, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ferrão-Filho, Aloysio Da S.

Series:

Bacteriology research developments series.

Bacteriology Research Developments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyanobacteria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Publishers, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cyanobacteria are procariotic organisms (like bacteria) that are long living on Earth (about 3.5 billion years). These tiny creatures have adapted to several kinds of habitats and climates showing a huge adaptive irradiance. Their huge plasticity makes them a successful organism, able to colonize different habitats and climates. They can be found both in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, from poles to deserts and from lakes to the seas over the world. Another remarkable characteristic of cayanobacteria is their capacity to produce several bioactive compounds, such as toxins and allelochemicals, which makes them even stronger competitors. Cyanobacterial blooms have been considered a serious problem in lakes and reservoirs worldwide, threatening wild life, cattle and humans as well. This book covers a series of up-to-date topics in cyabobacterial research, such as the role of cyanotoxins in species interactions, toxicology and ecotoxicology, risk assessment and management of toxic cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins.

Contents:

Possible roles of cyanotoxins in species interactions of phytoplankton assemblages

Negative allelopathy among cyanobacteria

The bloom-forming cyanobacterium nodularia spumigena : a peculiar Nitrogen-fixer in the Baltic Sea food webs

Which factors are related to the success of Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii in Brazilian aquatic systems?

Is cyanobacterial dominance in Brazilian semi-arid reservoirs regulated by environmental or stochastic features?

Picophytoplankton community structure in a hypersaline coastal lagoon : role of salinity and links with viral and microbial communities

Accumulation and phytotoxicity of microcystins in vascular plants

Cyanotoxin health hazard and risk assessment in freshwater lakes

Confocal laser scanning and electron microscopic techniques as powerful tools for determining the In vivo effect and sequestration capacity of lead in cyanobacteria

A new methodology for rapid assessment of spatial distribution of phytoplankton blooms : case study in Pampulha reservoir

Ecological control of cyanobacterial blooms in freshwater ecosystems.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed June 10, 2013).

ISBN:

1-62618-115-2