Eutrophication of Natural Waters and Toxic Algal Blooms

Eutrophication of Natural Waters and Toxic Algal Blooms 

ALASTAIR J. D. FERGUSON, MICK J. PEARSON AND COLIN S. REYNOLDS 

Public concern about the abundance of algae, and of the toxic cyanobacteria in particular, was raised by events in the UK in the summer of 1989 which involved the deaths of dogs and sheep at Rutland Water, Leicestershire, and the acute 

There is a general understanding of the reasons why nutrients are critical to the productive capacity of biological systems. The dry biomass of plants and animals comprises some 20 elements, the predominant atoms being those of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. Moreover, ideally they are required in fairly 

National Rivers Authority, Toxic Blue-green Algae, Water Quality Series Report No. 2, NRA, 1990, 

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