Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface pp. i-xi
Chapter 1: Possible Roles of Cyanotoxins in Species Interactions of Phytoplankton Assemblages
(István Bácsi, Viktória B-Béres and Gábor Vasas, University of Debrecen, Department of Hydrobiology, Debrecen, Hungary, and others)(pp. 1-26)
Chapter 2: Negative Allelopathy among Cyanobacteria
(Miroslav Švercel, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse, Switzerland)(pp. 27-46)
Chapter 3: The Bloom-Forming Cyanobacterium Nodularia Spumigena: A Peculiar Nitrogen-Fixer in the Baltic Sea Food Webs
(Rehab El-Shehawy and Elena Gorokhova, IMDEA Water, Alcalá de Henares, Spain and others)(pp. 47-72)
Chapter 4: Which Factors are Related to the Success of <i>Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii</i> in Brazilian Aquatic Systems?
(Andreia M.A. Gomes, Marcelo M. Marinho and Sandra M.F.O. Azevedo, Laboratório de Ecofisiologia e Toxicologia de Cianobactérias, IBCCF, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and others)(pp. 73-94)
Chapter 5: Is Cyanobacterial Dominance in Brazilian Semi-arid Reservoirs Regulated by Environmental or Stochastic Features?
(José Etham de Lucena Barbosa and Janiele França Vasconcelos, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Brazil, and others)(pp. 95-110)
Chapter 6: Picophytoplankton Community Structure in a Hypersaline Coastal Lagoon: Role of Salinity and Links with Viral and Microbial Communities
(Mathilde Schapira and Laurent Seuront, School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, and others)(pp. 111-138)
Chapter 7: Accumulation and Phytotoxicity of Microcystins in Vascular Plants
(Jian Chen, Hai Qiang Zhang and Zhi Qi Shi, Institute of Food Quality and Safety Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China)(pp. 139-152)
Chapter 8: Cyanotoxin Health Hazard and Risk Assessment in Freshwater Lakes
(Milena Bruno, Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy) (pp. 153-178)
Chapter 9: Confocal Laser Scanning and Electron Microscopic Techniques as Powerful Tools for Determining the In vivo Effect And Sequestration Capacity of Lead in Cyanobacteria
(Isabel Esteve, Juan Maldonado, Álvaro Burgos, Elia Diestra, Mireia Burnat and Antonio Solé, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici C – Campus de la UAB, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Barcelona, Spain and others)(pp. 179-196)
Chapter 10: A New Methodology for Rapid Assessment of Spatial Distribution of Phytoplankton Blooms: Case Study in Pampulha Reservoir
(Ricardo M. Pinto-Coelho, Maíra O. Campos, Eliane C. Elias, Simone P. dos Santos, Denise P. Fernandes, Gabriela P. Fernandes, Aloízio P. P. Gomes and Laila O. Ribeiro, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais,– Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil and others)(pp. 197-212)
Chapter 11: Ecological Control of Cyanobacterial Blooms in Freshwater Ecosystems
(Alan E. Wilson and Michael Chislock, Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA)(pp. 213-222)
Index pp. 223-225