Earlier and warmer springs increase cyanobacterial (Microcystis spp.) blooms in Lake Taihu.pdfVIP

Earlier and warmer springs increase cyanobacterial (Microcystis spp.) blooms in subtropical Lake Taihu, China J IANMING DENG* ,? , BOQIANG QIN*, HANS W. PAERL?, YUNLIN ZHANG*, J IANRONG MA*,? AND YUWEI CHEN* *State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China ?University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China ?Institute of Marine Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, NC, U.S.A. SUMMARY 1. We examined the effects of regional warming and water quality on phytop