Early onset of a microcystin-producing cyanobacterial bloom in an agriculturally-influenced Great Lakes tributary

Robert Michael L. McKAY; Taylor TUTTLE; Laura A. REITZ; George S. BULLERJAHN; William R. CODY; Adam J. McDOWELL; Timothy W. DAVIS

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Early onset of a microcystin-producing cyanobacterial bloom in an agriculturally-influenced Great Lakes tributary

ICTC-10 Special Issue: Cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins: responses and detection | Updated：2023-05-19

- Early onset of a microcystin-producing cyanobacterial bloom in an agriculturally-influenced Great Lakes tributary
- Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 36, Issue 4, Pages: 1112-1125(2018)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
  2.Aquatic Taxonomy Specialists, Malinta, OH 43535, USA
  3.City of Defiance, Water Division, Defiance, OH 43512, USA
  4.NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Author bio：
  
  Robert Michael L. McKAY, rmmckay@bgsu.edu
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-018-7164-z
  CLC：
- Received：27 May 2017，
  
  Accepted：27 September 2017，
  
  Online First：02 December 2017，
  
  Published：2018-07
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Robert Michael L. McKAY, Taylor TUTTLE, Laura A. REITZ, et al. Early onset of a microcystin-producing cyanobacterial bloom in an agriculturally-influenced Great Lakes tributary[J]. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2018, 36(4): 1112-1125.
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Robert Michael L. McKAY, Taylor TUTTLE, Laura A. REITZ, et al. Early onset of a microcystin-producing cyanobacterial bloom in an agriculturally-influenced Great Lakes tributary[J]. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2018, 36(4): 1112-1125. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-018-7164-z.

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Abstract

In late May 2016

a cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom (cHAB) was detected in the Maumee River

the largest tributary to Lake Erie

the southernmost lake of the Laurentian Great Lakes system. Testing on 31 May identified

Planktothrix agardhii

as the dominant cyanobacterium with cell abundance exceeding 1.7×10

cells/L and total microcystins (MC) reaching 19 μg/L MC-LR equivalents

a level over 10-fold higher than the 2015 revised U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) national health advisory levels for drinking water exposure to adults. Low river discharge coincident with negligible precipitation through the latter half of May coincided with an 80% decline in river turbidity that likely favored bloom formation by a low-light adapted

P. agardhii

population. Also contributing to the cHAB were high initial nutrient loads and an increase of the river temperature from 13℃ to 26℃ over this same period. The bloom persisted through 5 June with microcystins exceeding 22 μg/L MC-LR equivalents at the bloom peak. By 6 June

the river had returned to its muddy character following a rain event and sampling on 7 June detected only low levels of toxin (

0.6 μg/L) at public water systems located near the bloom origin. The elevated toxin production associated with this early onset bloom was without precedent for the Maumee River and an unique attribute of the cHAB was the high proportion of potentially-toxic genotypes. Whereas

Planktothrix

spp. is common in lotic environments

and has been previously detected in the Maumee

blooms are not commonly reported. This early onset

microcystin-producing cHAB provided a rare opportunity to glean insights into environmental factors that promote bloom development and dominance by

Planktothrix

in lotic environments.

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