The Web of Data currently coming into existence through the Linked Open Data (LOD) effort is a major milestone in realizing the Semantic Web vision. However, the development of applications based on LOD faces difficulties due to the fact that the different LOD datasets are rather loosely connected pieces of information. In particular, links between LOD datasets are almost exclusively on the lev...

Prymnesium parvum is a toxin-producing haptophyte that causes harmful algal blooms globally, leading to large-scale fish kills that have severe ecological and economic implications. For the model haptophyte, Emiliania huxleyi, it has been shown that large dsDNA viruses play an important role in regulating blooms and therefore biogeochemical cycling, but much less work has been done looking at v...

The trouble began for Toledo, Ohio, in the spring of 2014, when extreme storms washed an unusually high pulse of nutrients into Lake Erie. By late summer, a massive bloom of blue-green algae, otherwise known as cyanobacteria, had shut down the city’s drinking water system. Powered by nutrients from agricultural runoff and the warm, calm summer waters, the algae spread across the lake and slowly...

Synoptic scale analysis of mechanisms driving surface chlorophyll dynamics in the North Atlantic A. S. A. Ferreira, H. Hátún, F. Counillon, M. R. Payne, and A. W. Visser Centre for Ocean Life, National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Faroe Marine Research Institute, Nóatún 1, P.O. Box 3051, FO 110 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands Nansen Environmental and Remote S...

Citation: Fourquez M, Beier S, Jongmans E, Hunter R and Obernosterer I (2016) Uptake of Leucine, Chitin, and Iron by Prokaryotic Groups during Spring Phytoplankton Blooms Induced by Natural Iron Fertilization off Kerguelen Island (Southern Ocean). Front. Mar. Sci. 3:256. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00256 Uptake of Leucine, Chitin, and Iron by Prokaryotic Groups during Spring Phytoplankton Blooms In...

Citation: Vermaire JC, Taranu ZE, MacDonald GK, Velghe K, Bennett EM and Gregory-Eaves I (2017) Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Regimes Shifts in Shallow Lakes: Long-Term Response of Cyanobacterial Blooms to Historical Catchment Phosphorus Loading and Climate Warming. Front. Ecol. Evol. 5:146. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00146 Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Regimes Shifts in Shallow Lakes: Long-Term Response of Cy...

The value of distinguishing native from nonnative invasive species has recently been questioned. However, this dichotomy is important for understanding whether a species' successful dominance is caused by introductions, changing environmental conditions that facilitate an existing population, or both processes. We highlight the importance of knowing the origin of hard-to-detect invasive microor...

Objectives Sardinia populations experienced continuous shortage of water resources for thousands of years. To solve this problem, during 1950-1980, the main rivers were dammed creating 45 reservoirs which rapidly became eutrophic or hypertrophic, with toxic cyanobacterial blooms and a generally poor water quality. In order to investigate relations between some cancers occurrence and drinking ...