This article presents a novel Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) that was designed and manufactured specifically for the monitoring of water resources, resources that are not only constantly drained, but also face the growing threat of mass proliferation (bloom) of noxious cyanobacteria. On one hand, the distribution of these blooms in a given water body requires a surveillance of biological data ...

Cyanobacterial blooms represent a significant environmental problem, threatening aquatic ecosystems worldwide. Caused by the eutrophication of water bodies and global climate change, these have altered freshwater worldwide during recent decades. Although cyanobacterial are typically caused blue-green cyanobacteria, which derive their color from phycocyanin pigment, other pigmented been frequent...

Due to the increasing oligotrophy of Lake Ammersee, southern Germany, metalimnic Planktothrix have become one of the dominant planktonic species causing regular blooms. Whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) is the dominant local fish species with great importance for the fishing industry. Recently, whole age groups of this fish species have disappeared and since 1991, average body-weight has decrease...

• Water blooms caused by Cyanobacteria have become more and frequent. We assessed the effect of on diversity in hypertrophic shallow lakes. The species non-cyanobacteria was not affected negatively bloom. functional richness dispersion were only marginally significantly affected. Applied methods are sensitive to reflect subordinated species. Under increasing pressure climatic change anthropogen...

Cyanobacteria are the most ancient phytoplankton that first appeared at least 2.5 billion years ago and have a prolonged evolutionary history. They can form impenetrable toxic blooms in aquatic ecosystems such as freshwater marine environments. Cyanobacterial produce cyanotoxins endanger ecosystem functioning deteriorate water quality used for recreation, drinking, fisheries, thus, adversely af...