Known to science as cyanoHABs (cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms), the scums are harmful to livestock ... Past reports ...

In freshwater environments such as lakes, ponds and streams, a cyanobacterium known as Microcystis aeruginosa is responsible for most toxic harmful algal bloom episodes. While most efforts on ...

The study revealed that Dolichospermum was the dominant bloom-forming cyanobacteria in Winam Gulf, often accompanied by Microcystis, which produces the liver-damaging toxin microcystin.

To try to understand how harmful algal blooms might evolve in Lake Erie ... they also found another cyanobacteria called Microcystis. Microcystis and a cyanobacteria called Planktothrix were ...