Talk:Algal bloom

message: While cleaning up the bloom article and turning it into a proper disambiguation page, I removed the rather fetching image that was on that page. Perhaps it can be of some use? I'm not familiar with the territory, so I'll just stick it in here.
:Bz2 23:38, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just removed this image as it doesn't appear to be a bloom at all.  As the image's caption makes clear, as it's from early in the year, it's more likely to be a resuspension of material from the seafloor than a bloom.  The image's caption links to a research paper on the subject.  Cheers, --PLUMBAGO 12:18, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
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message: I corrected and revised the references today and inserted footnotes into the body of the text by using the <ref>-tag. Hope that was okay! Ioverka 01:19, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: I have noticed a lot of algal bloom in the UK recently and recall reading something about the damage it is doing to the ecosystem. Does anyone know of more information about this, possibly in the form of a link or a section on the subject?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.72.50.75 (talk) 16:17, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
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message: From the first paragraph: "...algae can be considered to be blooming at concentrations of hundreds to thousands of cells per milliliter...".  Is that per square millimeter or cubic millimeter?  It certainly isn't just millimeter.  I'd correct it myself, but there's no citation for that statement.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.139.199.27 (talk) 17:10, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
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message: See Talk:Harmful algal bloom#New merge discussion. Dcoetzee 01:23, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
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message: There are fundamental contradictions on this page.
"Freshwater algal blooms
Algae tend to grow very quickly under high nutrient availability, but each alga is short-lived, and the result is a high concentration of dead organic matter which starts to decay. The decay process consumes dissolved oxygen in the water, resulting in hypoxic conditions."
"Background
In the marine environment, single-celled, microscopic, plant-like organisms naturally occur in the well-lit surface layer of any body of water. These organisms, referred to as phytoplankton or microalgae, form the base of the food web upon which nearly all other marine organisms depend."
These two paras contradict each other.
Why do phytoplankton die and decompose if they are food for all other marine organisms?
A bloom of algae ought to result in bloom of higher organisms such as zooplankton and fish.
The fact is that most algal blooms are of Cyanobacteria or Dinoflagellates, especially most of the Harmful Algal Blooms. 
Very few algal blooms are of Diatoms.
This is because Diatoms are good food for zooplankton and fish but Cyano and Dinos are not.
This difference between various groups of algae is not well studied and there are few scientific papers on the subject.
--Bhaskarmv (talk) 14:39, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
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message: I have been made aware of a large area of bright green algal bloom right off of someones property (fresh water) and it has stayed there for at least three weeks. How would this situation affect a source of well water?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.217.91.212 (talk) 12:57, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Algal bloom 

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