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Assessment of the risk of cyanobacterial bloom occurrence in urban ponds: probabilistic approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2010

Anatoly Peretyatko ,
Samuel Teissier ,
Sylvia De Backer  and
Ludwig Triest
Anatoly Peretyatko*
Affiliation:
Plant Science and Nature Management, Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Samuel Teissier
Affiliation:
Plant Science and Nature Management, Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Sylvia De Backer
Affiliation:
Plant Science and Nature Management, Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Ludwig Triest
Affiliation:
Plant Science and Nature Management, Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
*
*Corresponding author: Anatoly.Peretyatko@vub.ac.be
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Abstract

Blooms of toxic cyanobacteria became a common feature of temperate lakes and ponds owing to human induced eutrophication. Occurrence of cyanobacterial blooms in an urban context may pose serious health concerns. This necessitates the development of tools for assessment of the risk of noxious bloom occurrence. A five year study of 42 Brussels ponds showed that cyanobacteria have threshold rather than linear relationships with environmental variables controlling them. Hence, linear relationships have limited predictive capacity for cyanobacterial blooms. A probabilistic approach to prediction of bloom occurrence using environmental thresholds as conditions in conditional probability calculation proved to be more useful. It permitted the risk of cyanobacterial bloom occurrence to be quantified and thus the conditions and thence the ponds the most prone to cyanobacterial bloom development to be singled out. This approach can be applied for the assessment of the risk of cyanobacterial bloom occurrence in urban ponds and thus can facilitate monitoring planning, remediation efforts and setting restoration priorities.

Keywords

Cyanobacteriaeutrophicationthreshold relationshipconditional probability
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Research Article
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Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , 2010 , pp. 121 - 133
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© EDP Sciences, 2010

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