Cyanobacteria: Ecology, Toxicology and Management

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Aloysio Da S. Ferrão-Filho (Editor)
Laboratory of Evaluation and Promotion of Environmental Health, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz – Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Series: Bacteriology Research Developments, Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology
BISAC: SCI006000

Cyanobacteria are prokaryotic 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 the most 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 cyanobacteria is the capacity of producing several bioactive compounds, such as toxins and allelochemicals, which makes them even stronger competitors. It is been a consensus among scientists that eutrophication (the nutrient enrichment of aquatic ecosystems) and global warming have favored these organism even more and enhancing their capacity of dominating aquatic ecosystems. Cyanobacterial blooms have been considered a serious problem in lakes and reservoirs worldwide, threatening wild life, cattle and humans as well.

This book is intended to scientists, students and public in general interested in the Ecology, Toxicology and Management of cyanobacteria. It is a collection of review chapters, original research and case studies, which are ordinated in such a way to make readers not only to gain more knowledge about this topic but to enjoy reading. The 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. We hope this book will help also managers and decision-makers in environmental issues related to this very recent and serious problem in the history of the humanity. (Imprint: Nova)

 

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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

 

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