Rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae.
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Examples for "algal bloom "
1 Another lake in the Far North has succumbed to an algal bloom .
2 A toxic algal bloom has been found in North Canterbury's Waipara River.
3 A high trophic level tended to increase the risk of an algal bloom .
4 How can you tell quickly if an algal bloom is about to hit?
5 The cause was said to have been an extensive algal bloom .
1 But the upside of algal blooms also represents a big green story.
2 For instance, pollution can cause algal blooms that reduce the water's oxygen content.
3 Traces of toxic algal blooms were discovered in dry watering holes.
4 Hazardous algal blooms can generate toxic compounds with significant health impacts for exposed communities.
5 Will our fishing and tourism industries be grateful for algal blooms from untreated sewage?
1 Have you seen or heard of the green algae blooms in the lake?
2 Nitrogen in agricultural run-off can feed algae blooms that create coastal dead zones.
3 Starving sea lion pups, jellyfish swarms, toxic algae blooms .
4 Their present colouring comes from algae blooms .
5 Scientists have collected samples from algae blooms found during an inspection of Lake Taupō swimming sites this weekend.
1 An algae bloom in Brazil killed eighty-eight people and sickened thousands in 1988.
2 The regional council was yet to receive an official complaint about the algae bloom .
3 Scientists say warmer-than-normal weather and agricultural runoff may have contributed to this year's algae bloom .
4 For the first time in six years Lough Keane could this summer develop a toxic algae bloom .
5 The plants had stopped producing for a month late last year as a result of an algae bloom .
6 Even more worryingly, the Ukrainian scientists are concerned the algae bloom could start a circle of warming and melting.
7 Samples analysed by the Marine Institute this week have identified an algae bloom of a microscopic plankton species called Karenia mikimotoi.
8 However, from them this algae bloom had spread out to sea, and just beyond it the sea plankton had undergone a resurgence.
9 A naturally occurring algae bloom - commonly known as "red tide" - has hit the western seaboard in recent weeks.
10 Humans can witness this natural phenomenon when there is lots of bioluminescence in the water, usually from an algae bloom of plankton.
11 CONSUMERS have been warned not to eat shellfish from Cork Harbour because a poison from a harmful algae bloom has contaminated them.
12 The warmer temperatures has melted significant amounts of Antarctic ice and snow over the past several weeks, which has helped the algae bloom .
13 A subsequent investigation of the waters in the Youghalarra area of Lough Derg where the dogs swam found a potentially toxic algae bloom .
14 Mr Davie said there were records of rowing regatta being cancelled in the 1800s due to the algae bloom , so it was nothing new.
15 This follows the results of tests returned to North Tipperary County Council yesterday showing that the algae bloom in the lake has no toxicity.
16 Surfers and hapū in coastal Taranaki say they are horrified at an algae bloom that is clogging the area's rivers and streams this summer.
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